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  • Email diet results in leaner organisation

    CIO Tony Murabito surveys workers at his company every year about the IT systems they use. The responses usually focus on technical issues, which is why last year's comments about email shocked him. One comment, "Let's blow up the Reply-to-All key!", summarised many users' sentiments.
    "There was just an overwhelming sense that there were no controls [on email] in place," Murabito says.
    After seeing the comments, Murabito decided to cut the number of emails at his compay, Cubist Pharmaceuticals, by 25 percent, by training employees how to better use email.
    This email problem is not unique to Cubist, says Dianna Booher, CEO of Booher Consultants and author of E-Writing: 21st Century Tools for Effective Communication. "I hear a lot of complaining and there is not a lot of people doing something about it," she says. "But I think people will have to do something, because it's blocking productivity."

  • Court orders White House to preserve email

    A US judge has ordered employees of President George Bush in the White House to search for and preserve email messages on their workstations and other storage devices.

  • Palin's email and expert mistakes

    When a friend from the Czech Republic brought me a bag of dried wild mushrooms he had collected in the woods around his hometown I was excited. I added them to an Alfredo sauce (minus the peas) and served it with linguine — fantastic. The flavour of the mushrooms was insane!

  • Email can come at a high price

    Email: can't live without it, can't stand the hassles. Is it any wonder many people rely on Instant Messaging for co-worker communications?

  • Email boosts productivity; IM poses threats: survey says

    When it comes to communicating during the workday, a majority of enterprise users find email and phone calls conducive to productivity, while unified communications technologies such as instant messaging, blogs and softphones distract them from the work at hand and pose a threat to enterprise security.

  • Marketers over-reacting to new spam law

    Lawyers and other legal advisers are causing needless concern among marketers that they could be prosecuted if they fail to get explicit consent for promotional email, says Keith Norris, head of the New Zealand Marketing Association.

  • Opinion: codes of practice require enforcement

    New Zealand’s Spam Code of Practice is insufficient in its present form and is purely cosmetic. There will be no visible improvement of services and ISPs will be allowed to ignore spam problems, as they will not be required to do anything material.

  • Melbourne medical institute takes Kiwi spam cure

    With as much as 90% of its inbound email classified as spam, the McFarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research and Public Health in Melbourne has signed up to a New Zealand hosted mail filtering service to cut back the deluge.

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