Remember When Email Was Fun?
from the not-any-more... dept
Another spam post that goes into the usual areas discussing the problem, but has one statement that really clicked with me: email used to be fun. You used to enjoy sitting down at your email and seeing who had written you an email. Now you fear the latest offers for viagra or porn. Even in cases where you have a pretty good filter set up, you wonder how long it will last. A good friend of mine just left for a week and a half vacation, where he won't have access to the internet. He knows that his yahoo email box is going to fill up with spam within a day of his being gone, but there's nothing he can do about it. Spammers have taken all the fun out of email and turned it into a chore. How nice.
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Remember When Email Used To Be Fun
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I also remember when the phone was fun too. The ring meant somebody you likely wanted to hear from was calling you.
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Exciting
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Spam is GREAT!
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Re: Spam is GREAT!
I don't like it at all, but this country used to be farmers and iron workers pulling their bloody
limbs out of threshers and white hot cauldrons of molten steel and still they trudged on ;-)
ps Comcast keeps my home Spam almost nil and my company uses spamshark and its been good, too.
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Spam Pileup
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surfing the web also used to be fun
What's bad is that you establish what you think are trusted sites and then they start throwing cheap stuff at you. I guess they justify it because everyone else is doing it. As an example, I stopped visiting usatoday.com. I have them in my pop-up blocker just in case I forget. Unfortunately, that's just one of many.
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