The right spelling of email is without hyphen…

Paul Beck and Jeanniey Mullen announced that the official spelling of the word email is email, without hyphen. Paul provided an overview of the research and survey efforts that come to a formal position.

Adoption of this spelling has already started to take place in style guides of many of the Email Experience Council (EEC) members. This means, many online media including email services will start to spell the beast without hyphen.

High stakes in the ongoing spam wars

Anti-spamming legislation has made its way onto the books and is having some impact, reports Arik Hesseldahl for NewsFactor.com.

On September 14th 2006, the Federal Trade Commission announced it had shut down four spamming operations for violating privisions of the 2004 federal CAN-SPAM Act, which require bulk emails to be marked as advertising and to have an opt-out method, among other things.