News stories about Email

Here are some news stories concerning email:

Gmails can now priorities you email!

Priority Inbox will be available to Gmail users in September

Gmail has a new setting which allows you to only read improtant messages and sift out unwanted spam emails. This is achieved by creating clever algerythms and codes to organise your emails. All spam and offer email will go to the bottom of your inbox list as these are less important to the user.Gmail in comparioson to hotmail has a star feature which allows you to put important and memorable emails in a folder so you can read them again. Hotmail doesn't have this tool and it therefore makes it harder to find emails that are important to you. Tools like this prevent information overload by organising your email.

For a system like this to work effectively, it needs to have time to understand the way you use email. The classification and tool effectiveness should improve, because you can mark messages with 'less important' or 'more important', and Gmail will learn to reclassify according to your needs. It's like the inverse of junk mail filtering. Gmail will make your email eperience easier and quicker to access the emails you want to and save you time going through spam email.

Bad e-mail habits sustains spam!

Spammers play on popularity of Desperate Housewives

Spammers play on popularity of Desperate Housewives. The 'bad behaviour' of e-mail users is helping to sustain the spam industry, a new study has found.

According to a survey conducted by security firm Mirapoint and market research company the Radicati Group, nearly a third of e-mail users have clicked on links in spam messages. One in ten users have bought products advertised in junk mail. Clicking on a link in a spam message can expose people to viruses and alert spammers to live e-mail accounts. Find out more   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4375601.stm.