Published: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:59:14 +0000

A quick note about a new feature in the email client on the iPhone in the latest iOS4 release. When you receive an email with a date or time mentioned in it, Apple’s email client automatically detects the date, and presents it as an underlined hyperlink. Clicking the date then creates an event in your [...]

Published: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:55:39 +0000

Way back in 2008 at the AAAI Workshop on Enhanced Email, Mark Dredze mooted that emails from the Clinton era would at some stage be released to the public. Happily, just days ago, the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum began releasing email and other records from the US Clinton Administration. The first release [...]

Published: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:32:36 +0000

I was recently contacted by Stefan Mey, who interviewed Julian Assange. Assange, an Australian, is the spokesperson of Wikileaks. The interview makes for interesting reading. In discussing how Wikileaks is financed, Mey elicits some interesting comments on the controversial auction of Venezuelan government email that I’ve previously covered on this blog. Back in September 2008, [...]

Published: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:13:51 +0000

Exciting news – there’s a new version of the Enron email corpus that’s now publicly available which includes both the email messages and attachments. Recently, an organisation called EDRM (Electronic Discovery Reference Model) has made a version of the Enron email corpus available for download that includes attachments, which were missing from the widely used [...]

Published: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:46:06 +0000

In the early days of email, widely-used conventions for indicating quoted reply content and email signatures made it easy to segment email messages into their functional parts. Today, the explosion of different email formats and styles, coupled with the ad hoc ways in which people vary the structure and layout of their messages, means that [...]