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News 8 in Austin, Texas offers a few tips to handle your overflowing inbox.

Here’s an article from ZDNet that examines the possible far-reaching effects of spam. According to the article, porn spam could begin to crop up in sexual harassment complaints from employees offended by the material. Even if companies aren’t the source of such messages, they could be liable for hefty civil fines if managers know that porn spam is a problem and don’t move to address it.

Here’s an article from Canada.com, which explains how junk email can be controlled. The article contends that it is possible to control junk email, but it will take a lot of work.

WhitePages.com announced the debut of My WhitePages. My WhitePages is accessed through a one-time registration and log-in process. My WhitePages allows you to save and export contact information to Microsoft Outlook and other contact management programs.

Xenos Software LLC released the Xenos Outlook Security Extension, an add-in for Microsoft Outlook 2000 and later, running on Windows 2000/XP platforms. This extension allows you to unblock file attachments, automatically purge deleted data from Outlook’s database, read all email as plain text, and manage other options not directly available through Outlook.

Client By Design, launched the first release of LEAH-Message Manager, a j2 (formerly JFAX) compatible add-in for Microsoft Outlook that enables users to manage fax to email, email to fax and voice to email messages.

GFI announced the release of GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner (N.S.S.) 3.2, which offers patch management. GFI LANguard N.S.S. can now deploy patches and service packs remotely for Microsoft applications, such as Microsoft Office, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft ISA Server. It also offers installed patch checking for Internet Explorer and IIS.

ABF Software announced version 1.1 of its Internet Explorer expansion package. ABF Internet Explorer Tools is intended for users of Microsoft Internet Explorer browser that require advanced functionality, such as pop-up windows blocking, magnifying glass, list of URLs, saving of all images on a web page to the desired folder, extended page information and even one-click re-load of all images or an entire web page bypassing browser cache.

Windows & .NET Magazine has this article on how you can improve your end users’ Outlook Web Access experience.