Posts Tagged ‘email’

Spam Trends for Q2 2008

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Secure Computing, a company providing enterprise security solutions has published a report on Internet threats for the second quarter of 2008. According to the report, USA tops the list of spam sending countries accounting for 16.5% of the spam while Russia is second on list with around 8% contribution.

These top 10 countries account for 55% of global spam. Besides US and Russia, India, Korea, Argentina, Germany were also on the top spam sender’s list.

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Combat spam with disposable e-mail address

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

The disposable or temporary e-mail service providers provide you with e-mail addresses that expire after few hours or minutes after creating them. Using these e-mail addresses, you can perform sign-ups for not so important registrations which require e-mail address verification. When your verification is done, you can simply discard that e-mail address.

This will help you fight spam as many sites may share your personal data with their sponsors to send you promotional e-mails etc. which are quite annoying when they arrive in your primary mailbox.

These 3 free services listed below provide temporary e-mail addresses that you can easily throw away when your job is done.

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How to send Large Files in email?

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Many a times, we need to send large files via email but due to attachment limit imposed by most email providers, we’ve to look into other ways to send large files e.g. Splitting the files using some file archiver like WinRAR.

Here are three services using which you can send large email attachments for free.

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