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[	June 23, 2002	]	E-Mail Suggests DWP Role in Trading Scheme

Evidence uncovered by a state Senate investigation of California's electricity crisis includes a warning from an energy trader in which he suggests that the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (news - web sites) engaged in "ricochet," a trading scheme to raise power prices that the DWP has denied using. Among the documents turned over to Senate investigators recently and obtained by The Times is a November 2000 e-mail from an employee of the energy-trading arm of Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. ... »
[	June 19, 2002	]	Mailing List Wizard 1.1 has been RELEASED

<a href=/mlw/><img src="/i/mlw-icon.gif" width=32 height=32 border=0 align=left alt="Mailing List Wizard" vspace=3></a> Mailing List Wizard 1.1 has been released at June 19. New version have many changes and improvements in email addresses correction algorithm. Several optional features has been added too. At first, recovery emails by known domains list — if this option is enabled, MLW will recovery emails without first-level domain like <jane@aol>, <mike@hotmail>, to <jane@aol.com> and <mike@hotmail.com>. You can add any number of domains to domains list. Next, removing of known 'REMOVEIT' substrings. This option may affect on valid emails. Addresses like <mikeREMOVEIT@hotmail.com> and <jane@NOSPAMaol.com> are syntactically correct and may exist. If this option is on, MLW will try to recovery such emails to <mike@hotmail.com> and <jane@aol.com>. In correction and filtering operations settings you can turn on emails verifing by first-level domains list. It is the simple check procedure, it compare the first-level domain (e.g., '.com' for <jane@somesite.domain.com>) with all domains in list. But it helpful to remove 'antispam jokes' in mailing lists, like hahaha@dont.spam, someone@invalid.address and so on. To quality emails verifing we recommend <a href=/amv/>Advanced Maillist Verify</a>. You can download <a href=/mlw/>Mailing List Wizard</a> at our <a href=/downloads/>downloads</a> page and learn more about MLW <a href=/mlw/>here</a>.
[	June 19, 2002	]	FBI: Man made e-mail threats

Federal agents have arrested a Miramar data-entry clerk, saying he sent tips to the FBI about an alleged terror plotter who turned out to be himself. Safraz Jehaludi, 21, was arrested June 17 by the Secret Service. He is charged with using ''an instrument of interstate or foreign commerce'' to make a threat, which carries a possible penalty of 10 years in prison. ... »
[	June 19, 2002	]	Friends Help Friends Stop Junk E-mail

For many e-mail users, the war against unsolicited commercial messages — better known as spam — seems to be overwhelmingly impossible to win. There's no escaping e-mails that tout herbal remedies, porn sites, and low-rate mortgages and credit cards. ... »
[	June 18, 2002	]	STUDENT'S ANGER OVER EXAM E-MAIL MIX-UP

Staffordshire University is investigating claims a lecturer accidentally sent students questions from a vital exam weeks before they sat the paper. An internal inquiry has been launched after a HND business student claimed others on her course received the questions in an e-mail from tutor Andy Jones. Lorna Edwards claims the questions were included in a practice test e-mailed by Mr Jones to students who did not attend a pre-exam tutorial. ... »
[	June 17, 2002	]	Advanced Email Parser v1.091 is available

We are glad to present the new version of Advanced Email Parser - the unique program for incoming emails processing and data extraction. In this AEP version several new options were added and several bugs were fixed - thanks for assistance to our users and testers! You can learn more about AEP at AEP home and download it from our downloads page.
[	June 17, 2002	]	Are e-mails sealing the fate of the simple letter?

IT was a cold December day, made all the more bitter by the heartbreak of lost love. The young man settled down, picked up his quill and started to quickly scrawl on to paper his innermost thoughts. "I have just ten minutes before the post goes," he wrote. "These I shall employ in sending you some songs." ... »
[	June 16, 2002	]	E-mails show Hedges gave advice after resigning

Former aide Shane Hedges, who resigned after causing a fatal drunken-driving accident last summer, has remained a key strategist for Gov. Judy Martz, using e-mail to help craft speeches, write policy and raise money for the governor, state records show. The analysis of more than 3,500 e-mail records of the governor and key members of her staff also found a handful of cases in which staff members used state e-mail to write or pass on political fund-raising messages. ... »
[	June 15, 2002	]	Jury based guilty verdict on Andersen e-mail

Houston—In the end, it wasn’t the massive shredding of Enron-related documents or ex-Andersen partner David B. Duncan’s guilty plea that convinced a Houston jury to convict Andersen of obstruction of justice on Saturday. It was a single e-mail written by Andersen in-house lawyer Nancy Temple to Mr. Duncan, suggesting he alter an internal memo. The Oct. 18 e-mail urged Mr. Duncan to change his record of Andersen’s conference calls regarding Enron’s troubles, removing any reference to concerns that he and other Andersen executives had about Enron’s Oct. 16 earnings press release, which described the Houston-based energy trading firm’s $1.01-billion charge against earnings as non-recurring. Mr. Duncan considered the terminology misleading to investors, since future charges were possible, if not probable. He warned the company not to use it, saying the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) takes a dim view of misrepresentations. ... »
[	June 15, 2002	]	Fund-raising e-mails probed by department

Barbara Ranf, Martz's chief of staff, said e-mail messages dealing with political fund-raising that were uncovered through the news media's request were turned over to the state Justice Department, which began an investigation two months ago into improper use of phones in the governor's office. ... »