For a while now, Gmail has been able to detect cues inside bulk emails to offer an Unsubscribe button, saving you the trouble ...

My inbox receives an almost daily temptation to share in the spoils of some unfortunate venture in Nigeria, involving $20m or more. The email informs me that I have been well recommended to the sender ...

I used to treat the unsubscribe link as a pressure-release valve for my inbox: one click, a little less noise. But the more I ...

Have you ever shopped at an online store once, and then found yourself dealing with a constant influx of marketing spam emails for weeks and even months? Virtually every online service wants me to ...

Tickets to an upcoming sporting event. A receipt from the Nike store for running shoes I bought last weekend. A local newsletter I open every day. Those emails and 82 others were among the legitimate ...

Spam. Nobody likes it. Everybody hates it. Yet it continues to exist, filling inboxes with unwanted offers for generic drugs, overseas lotteries, health insurance, and who knows what else. The problem ...

If, like me, you spend as much time these days deleting unwanted crap from your Gmail inbox as you do actually using it for its intended communicative purpose, get ready for — surprise! — more of the ...

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If typical inboxes really were … better than … five years ago … there’d be less need for spam filters or for taking the time to deal with spam. But that’s always assuming that I’m right when I say ...

That’s the sales pitch of Abaca Technology Corp., the company that built the anti-spam technology protecting Yahoo's 260 million inboxes. Click to expand... The operative words in that sentence are ...