Email wasn't always a source of fear and loathing, writes Stewart Butterfield, but that was inevitable because it is "the distillation of the other stuff that other people want you to do."
Why email sucks
Hiding email addresses with typographic tricks? It's no match for ChatGPT
ChatGPT is effective at reading emails obscured using trickery such as "help [at] boingboing <dot> net", lookalike unicode characters, URL encoding and so on. Arnaud Norman set about proving a… READ THE REST
How to guarantee your email will be categorized as spam
Want to send an email but want to make sure it doesn't get read? Try Adnan Aga and Taylor Tabb's Straight 2 Spam, a single-serving website that generates "invisible" text… READ THE REST
Email tracking endemic, says study
Most email sent now includes some form of tracking, intended to tell the sender if the recipient has opened the email, who they forwarded it to, how long it was… READ THE REST
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