Tag: EMail
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The dumbest thing about the Goldstone email to Trump Jr.
(Note: first published here on DailyKos. Minor edits were made.) So Donald J. Trump Jr. released the email that publicist Rob Goldstone sent him last year yesterday, along with his reply. Any lawyers among my readers were probably thinking, “What a stupid thing to do!” Trump Jr. probably figured that someone else would release it shortly…
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Hillary’s emails: what the critics are missing
The current kerfuffle over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private Blackberry and private email server for her official business while she was Secretary of State is mostly about making a mountain out of a molehill. Nonetheless the molehill makes for a pretty interesting discussion and analysis. I have some thoughts about this coming from my…
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The synergy of RSS to Email
Four and a half years ago, I wrote about this new cool technology called RSS. Actually, RSS (Really Simple Syndication) was hardly new in December 2003. It was introduced by Netscape in 1999 as “RDF Site Summary”. This original version is now quaintly referred to as RSS 0.91. The problem in 2003 was that RSS…
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Is the U.S. Post Office obsolete?
Recently I wondered if cash was becoming obsolete. After reading this story in the Washington Post, I get the feeling that America’s oldest public institution, the U.S. Post Office, is nearing obsolescence too. The milkman became obsolete in the middle of the 20th century. Analog TVs will become collector’s items after February 19, 2009 and…
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