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Guidelines for using email
- aneesh 18y agoThese are good to keep in handy. In particular, this one: "The integrity of an email message cannot be guaranteed. If a received message seems out of character for the sender, double-check before taking it seriously." I've come across too many people & organizations who blindly swear by the integrity of an email: "But look, it says right here it was sent by XYZ!"
- Kadin 18y agoInteresting to consider how many of these could be solved or at least ameliorated via existing technological measures and which ones couldn't. Encryption and signing would take care of the interception and authenticity/tampering issue, but there isn't anything that will ever stop the intended recipient of a message from forwarding it indiscriminately. Overall a good policy and good advice from UW; it's ironic that people who understand how email works tend to trust it less than those who don't. (There's something of a lesson there: if experts in a technology or system are more confident in it than the public, you can probably use it with caution; if experts think the public over-trusts it, run away.)
- soundsop 18y agoEmail takes up computer space, so delete messages you no longer need. I disagree. I keep almost all of my email. For me, the cost of storing all email is small compared to usefulness of finding an old email when you need it.