Earthling

Note: The below is an archived entry from Earthling, formerly EarthLink's official blog. The blog itself has been decommissioned and is no longer updated, and comments are trackbacks are no longer accepted.

A round-up of what's happening on the EarthLink product blogs:

• On the PCC blog, Ben is baiting a phisher scammer to demonstrate the likely scenario if you answer a "get rich helping me launder money" scam email.
  
• John's Web Mail blog answers a question about how to automatically forward all of your EarthLink email.
  
• A tip for the myFavorites blog -- check out Anil Dash's article on how people have come to use the "toread" tag in social bookmarking applications. If you want to hunt around for other interesting ways people use tags in myFavorites, you can look at the tags in the "Everyone" tab on the main page. Or just try a url that starts with http://myfavorites.earthlink.net/tags/ and then add any word to see what people use it for. Gregg recently started using revisit for things that are good and merit a re-read. I use [this is good] to mark things I find particularly excellent.
  
• Tom from the Security Center writes about all of the various groups that help fight internet malware, scams, spam, and mischief.