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You've got junk...mail
Isn't e-mail a great thing? You bet it is. The invention of e-mail has allowed us to communicate so much more readily with each other. No longer do we have to put postage on a letter, drop it in the mail and wait two or three days for it to get to its intended recipient. There's no need to pick up the telephone, dial the seven (or 10) digits to speak to someone. Nope. All we have to do now is type our message, its recipient and give a click of the mouse to send it almost instantly. So, if e-mail is so efficient and great, why I am beginning to dread checking mine each day? It's because of the junk, that's why. I probably get 200-250 e-mails a day, and I check it several times during the course of a work shift. If I'm lucky, maybe 10 of those e-mails actually are something I need or want. The rest is junk, plain and simple, and I'm tired of it. I don't need or want Cialis and Viagra. I have no desire to purchase medications from Canada at low costs, and I certainly am not looking to purchase an authentic Rolex watch online. And replica purses? Please, if I wanted one of those, I'd just dig through my wife's closet. The ones that really get me look like this: ????????? in the “from line” and more ?????????s in the “subject line.” That's pretty much a dead giveaway that a particular e-mail is nothing more than junk. But some of those great folks sending me these wonderful messages about redesigning my Web site (when I did I get one?) and claiming my refund from the IRS (like those folks are going to contact me by e-mail to let me know they want to give me money) are very creative. They're sending some subject tag that makes the e-mail appear as if though it actually is worth something. Sorry, it's not. I'm not sure how these folks got my e-mail address, but I sure wish they'd lose their address book or forget how to contact me. I'm tired of spending my time going through hundreds of useless e-mails. Who has time to send these things? I sure don't. It would be great to do nothing but e-mail all day every day, but some of us have to work for a living. I know, get a spam filter. Tried that, didn't work. It was filtering some of the e-mails I actually needed. My e-mail is filled on a regular basis, and going on vacation, well that's just allowing the old computer to get bogged down with thousands of them over a week's time. When I come back to work half my day consists of HIGHLIGHT, HIGHLIGHT, HIGHLIGHT, DELETE, REPEAT. I'm wearing out the delete button on my computer getting rid of Cialis, Viagra and all my Canadian medication prescriptions. All I ask is that these folks who think so much of me that they keep sending me countless e-mail after e-mail would stop. My fingers are getting tired of hitting delete. If this junk keeps coming, I'm really going to have to get a prescription, to help my worn-out delete key-pushing finger healed. If it's something I need and will be worthwhile, send it to me. If not, send it elsewhere, anywhere else but my address. And I thank you in advance. Nathan Key Managing Editor nathankey@newstopic.net
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