Tag: MAILING LIST

With the tagline 'work outside the inbox', and customary all-lower-case branding, Cc:Betty has just been relaunched and rebranded as Threadbox. Citing 'branding issues' and the need to 'reel in the cute', Threadbox is still the same software -- it just has a different name. If you haven't heard of Cc:Betty, it's a very neat email organizer. As you probably guessed from the (old) name, you add ...

I've been guilty of it, and if you subscribe to a lot of mailing lists, I'd be willing to be you have been too. Guilty of what? Of marking legitimate mailing list email as spam as a shortcut way to unsubscribe. To be fair, most of the time when I've done this, it's because the mailing list in question makes unsubscribing difficult. But sometimes it's just sheer laziness. The problem with marking ...

Among the new Gmail features we told you about last week was another that we managed to miss out on last week, but which could surpass them all in glory: Mute! "If you're subscribed to a mailing list," says Google's help page, "you've no doubt been subjected to the 'thread that just won't die!' If you're part of a long message conversation that isn't relevant, you can 'mute' the conversation to ...

Imagine a time when advertisers actually had to pay you for spamming you with adverts and deals. Okay, that time is here! Liz Gannes breaks the news on an interesting new email services called Boxbe. The service, which charges marketers to email its users, launched this week. Users simply sign up and use the email to sign up for "junk" emails like contests, forms, newsletters, etc. Then when ...