gender roles in phishing e-mails

March 27th, 2009 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

gender roles in phishing e-mails

I found this spam in my Inbox.  Since starting to co-present the Building Healthy Relationships workshops and listening to Chiara’s stories about this I ‘ve become more conscious about the gender messages that mediate our day-to-day lives.
From the e-mail:
Hello.
My name is Tessy, It is my pleasure writing you this mail as I saw your mail, [...]


backing up my mail with isync

February 14th, 2006 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

backing up my mail with isync

In the event that I switch mail providers, its good to have a backup. I found the isync program that seems like it will do a good job with this. Here is the command line I used to do the backup:
isync -1 -M mail_backup/ -L -s imap.myisp.com -u imap_username -a