Spam

[ellenmillion]

Getting email used to be so... fun. It was so exciting to have messages in the Inbox, or to get the little pop-up 'You have x number messages.' Oo! Maybe there's an order, or a question about EMG, or a friendly personal note from someone I know! Now, I find myself betting with my otherself... porn, drugs or degrees? Get laid, lose weight or get a better job? I think perhaps 1% of my messages now have substance. Some of the charm is gone.

It's sad.

Comments

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

I know *exactly* how you feel. Um. I have no idea if you're willing to pay to get rid of spam, but ambar pointed me at messagefire.com, which has nailed every piece of spam since I started using it. It sends one message a day saying "these are the messages which you might want to take a look at" and "these are the number of spam messages we killed" (if you set it that way, anyway), and it's about $36 a year plus I can give you a one-month discount if you think you're interested. Anyway, I think they've got a 15-day trial thing, or maybe a month trial thing, if you want to check it out.

[jemstone.livejournal.com]

I use Mac OS X's "Mail" Client, which has one of the worlds best spam filters (it uses some incredibly complex database system which is continually "folding" to keep up with Spam) and hardly anything ever gets through.

That is probably not an option on your end, though.

I hope my mails at least make you chuckle! :)

Speaking of.... *looks around...*

-JEM

[ursulav.livejournal.com]

What's sad for me is that even the humor of really absurd spam is mostly gone. Six foot tall screaming letters that demand I get a massive rock hard erection in the next sixty seconds used to crack me up. Now I go "meh."

Spam has to get truly insane before it's even interesting enough to mock any more.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Teenage girls doing barnyard animals and MILFs /ought/ to be disturbing, darnit. I want them to be disturbing and wrong, but geez, between Fox and my Inbox, very little phases me anymore. ho hum... *yawn*

*eyes Inbox* Of course, admitting this is a dangerous invitation for something worse and more shocking to show up...

[mebird.livejournal.com]

I know the feeling, I mean out of 13 emials, one for me :) two were for groups i'm in, the rest were junk/spam!!! I pay a little extra for my server to do spam filters, so they they catch it on their server which was fab for ages. Now sneakier spams are being downloaded to my email program once again! :P The write little stories amongst the important issues that they wish to bother you with are highlighted with fullstops etc.. it's quite sad.. and damned annoying.. bleh!

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Uh-oh... am I owing you an email? I haven't gotten the girly-shirt base yet; did I owe you something other than that? Eeps...

[jemstone.livejournal.com]

Uh-oh... am I owing you an email? I haven't gotten the girly-shirt base yet; did I owe you something other than that? Eeps...

Only in that I sometimes start conversations in "small" e-mails that other folks might not consider full-blown conversations. It was just random babble stuff. :)

And there's no real rush on the shirts, since I still haven't had time to set up paypal or the Anara site, yet. The picture could be a good incentive to do so, though. :)

-JEM