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When "plain text" e-mail is sent from many Yahoo! Mail accounts to any @jewishgen.org address, it arrives with various characters added, such as "=A0", which makes it appear to everyone at jewishgen.org that it was not sent as plain text. However, this does not happen when sending to other...

Philips sent me an e-mail with a coupon for $10 off on new brushheads for my Sonicare electric toothbrush. You can see a similar coupon at http://www.sonicare.com/email/reason-to-smile-november-2010.aspx If I click on "Shop Now", the computer goes to...

Citibank sent me a letter telling me I was "pre-approved to apply" for a credit card. What does this mean? I thought anyone could apply, and that you only needed approval to get the card after you applied. Since I am not yet approved to receive the card, and am only approved to apply, how am...

The information comes from your applications for credit. If you list a company as your employer when you apply for credit, then that company's name may appear on your credit report. If you have not applied for credit since you left that company, then the credit reporting agency (credit bureau)...

...less than in Europe? Taxes in Europe are higher than in the U.S. However, although taxes are lower in the U.S., most citizens of the U.S. are unaware of this and complain about the high taxes that they think they pay. Is the total burden on the U.S. economy (from taxes and from all of the...