Royal Mail 'loses 14.4m letters'

If the figures are accurate, this sort of thing is a bloody disgrace. I can't believe only 2000 people made a complaint about undelivered mail in t [...]

You've got mail

aventure mail

An alternative to Gmail's 1Gb of storage: 2 Gb of storage from Aventure Mail. [...]

Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and Gmail compared

A brief comparative rundown of the three most popular email clients in terms of their features and functionality. [...]

E-mail is not a platform for design

Zeldman says it like it is. [...]

Google Mail for mobile browsers

It worked ok already but here's Gmail specifically for the mobile browsers. [...]

Lists of Lists

interesting discussion regarding lists on the Web Standards Group discussion board: XHTML Strict alternative to <ol start="11">. Begins here [...]

Check your junk mail carefully

Out-law story describing a company who assumed emails were spam, when in fact they were notification of legal proceedings.Emails that initiated lega [...]

Most popular email clients

Oddpost

Here's an alternative email client with 50MB of storage space, and permitted mail attachments up to 10MB... it's not free though ($30 per annum). C [...]

Alt and title attributes

Interesting discussion at the Web Standards Group email list about the relative merits of using alt and title attributes in your HTML. [...]

UK anti-spam law

Article taken from The Register:New UK anti-spam laws coming into effect tomorrow will have limited effect in turning the tide in the fight against [...]

Netserver

Install NetServer and your PC will become a Web Server, MySQL Server, FTP Server, Mail Server in 5 minutes. [...]

Pownce

Send stuff to your friends with Pownce. Or you could try Gmail. [...]

What is electronic mail?

Link dump #113

The Secret of Effective E-Mail Marketing

Interesting stats regarding how much budget some companies use for email marketing... it's a hot business indeed. [...]

the distinction between the abbr element and the abbr attribute

Russ Weakley explains the difference between the abbr attribute and the abbr element: <acronym> and <abbr> and worms. [...]

World's largest swimming pool

Send big files for free

Here's a list of free services for sending big files:servicefile sizeYouSendIt100MBzUpload500MBDropSend1GBMailBigFile100MBMegaUpload500MBMediaMax10MBT [...]

Return to sender

Snakegirl

Defensive programming practices to survive Web site traffic peaks

8 tips for dealing with getting 'Digg'ed:Avoid accessing databasesCache Web pagesAvoid needless personalizationQueue tasks that may take too longMove [...]

Queen and Country