Recently, one of our old friends, Jack Schember of Melissa Data, sent us a question about mailing list performance. In this interesting article, Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz answer’s Jack’s question with some helpful tips and, well, math.

Here at OutlookPower, we’ve considered safe computing to be a very important area of our coverage. One of the more interesting aspects of safe computing are the related questions of anonymity and identity theft. Lance Cotrell makes a product known as Anonymizer and is an expert on both of these topics. Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz had the opportunity recently to learn more about anonymous computing directly from Lance.

Can Agendus Mail help you ditch your laptop for your PDA? You’ll have to read this review by Heather Wardell to find out.

Contributing editor Diane Poremsky can’t understand why people are so fixated on using rules to delete spam. It’s time consuming to keep the rules updated and, because spammers keep changing their addresses (often using fake addresses from legitimate domains) and use creative spelling for their products, it’s often a futile effort. You just can’t win at this game using rules like this, but you can waste a lot of time trying. In this helpful article, Diane shows you how you should rethink your spam-fighting strategy.

Before we begin our story, we want to be clear: this is must read article. Hurricane Katrina was a devastating disaster. Like many of you who weren’t in harm’s way, we felt an almost overwhelming need to help, to do something. The generosity of Americans and our friends in other countries is nothing short of astounding. Unfortunately, another group of people watched the disaster. These folks didn’t feel an overwhelming need to help. These folks sought to feed on the generosity of those who care. These people are the phishers. If you’re not careful, these phishers could do you considerable harm while you seek to do good.

Like everyone else on the planet with an email account, you, too are getting these forwards. You may also be guilty of sending them. So then, let’s talk about the issue of email forwards and the fragile social fabric of relationships.

Over the past week, we’ve gotten a number of concerned emails and voice mails, most of which we haven’t yet been able to return. No, we haven’t been swallowed by a sea monster. Instead, we’ve been moving — from North Brunswick, New Jersey to Palm Bay, Florida. For the exciting story, read this article.

Have you ever had one of those experiences where you thought you did something, but never did? For us, this happened recently when we thought we’d long ago given Slipstick.com our OutlookPower Site of the Month award. After all, we link to some area or another of Slipstick nearly as often as we link to our own magazines.

So, what happens when one of your favorite submarine novelists misses the boat when it comes to describing technology? When it’s a summer and you’re moving and it’s sunny outside, you grab onto his error with all your might, because otherwise you’d need to think up another story idea. In this eventually informative article, we tell you what the writer got wrong and what it might mean for your own secret dealings.

It’s that time again. We’ve gotten more requests for information on how to share .PST files among more than one person. In this variant, Sani asks how to make a .PST file read-only. Can it be done? If not, what’s the alternative? Once again, in this OutlookPower Answer Team column, Contributing Editor Francine Otterson has shares on sharing.