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Outlook 2010: Subject line more important than ever

Subject lines, their misuse and disuse, and constant changing, can be a serious bone of contention among serious email users. With the changes in Outlook 2010, specifically 'threaded conversations', subject lines in email are more important than ever. Tracking a conversation through email can become a tedious task when the subject doesn't exist or doesn't relate to the actual body of an email received. Outlook 2010 has adapted the threaded messaging much like that of Google's Gmail or popular discussion forums, which relies much on the consistency of related email subject lines. Outlook 2010 will zero in on subject lines, grouping emails with the same subject lines into one conversation thread. In a perfect world, where everyone uses the subject line as they should, and never sends two different and unrelated people emails that happen to have the same subject line, this conversation threading would be... perfect. Unfortunately, the world and Outlook are still impe...

A clear but limited win for Hollywood over isoHunt

A clear but limited win for Hollywood over isoHunt December 24, 2009 | 2:18 pm A U.S. District Court judge has ruled against another BitTorrent index site, and this time the case wasn't clouded by the defendant's misconduct . Instead, the site, isoHunt, appears to be a victim of its own bad facts (or incredibly ineffective lawyering). But the court narrowed its ruling against isoHunt in ways that could limit its application to other torrent search sites. In fact, the ruling ducks the fundamental question of whether such sites are by their nature infringing. (Hat tips to Ars Technica and Michael Geist for the links to the ruling.) The judge in the case was none other than Stephen V. Wilson, who went out on a legal limb in 2003 to declare Grokster and Morpheus legal before the Supreme Court discovered a previously overlooked form of secondary liability for copyright infringement ("inducing" people to infringe). Both ...