Something must be done. I cannot live like this.
I receive hundreds of email messages each day. Approximately five of them are legitimate. The rest are what is commonly called spam. I get messages about pills, investing, internet auctions, vacation deals, and countless other things, but none are authentic communications from parties with whom I have any relationship whatever. On the contrary, many of these messages claim to have business with me, but manifestly do not.
Some of these spam messages attempt to deceive me with realistic looking subject titles, like “Student Loan Information”, or coincidentally come bearing the name of someone with whom I regularly engage in correspondence. In this way I sometimes click on a message believing it to be from my friend Anthony, only to find it is not. Sometimes, however, the spammers don’t even seem to be trying. “Follow-up to our talk about refinancing your house” is one I have received. Really? How absent minded would I have to be? One I got today was “Shocking Tim Russert Sex Tape”. Even if this was a real thing, why on earth would I want to see that? I mean, if I got one that said, “Shocking video of you eating cookies in your yard”, yeah, maybe I’d think that was real, and I’d be concerned enough to click a link. But the other thing? No way.
I hesitate to say anything about this here for risk of attracting more attention from spammers, but I assume many of them are robots anyway and don’t know the difference.
Something must be done. I have been using Mozilla Thunderbird for a month or so, and I have it set to filter junk mail, but I still have to regularly sift through the junk to see if any genuine correspondence has been misidentified. Every day something is. Is there a better way to handle this?
Filed under: Technology, Website on October 17th, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I haven’t died or given up writing on this website. I have just had a spate of computer-related maladies that have prevented me from devoting attention to this. For instance, in the past month, I have had to reformat my machine twice. This, of course, has cost me an enormous amount of time spent restoring said computer to a condition I find useful, adding my old programs and files right where they belong.
I will do my best to write a great big update on Thursday, and in it will tell you about school, Sloshball, and the wedding of two dear friends.
Filed under: Website on September 13th, 2011 | No Comments »
I sincerely regret that the hectic pace of this spring semester has kept me from writing here. This is doubly unfortunate because so much has been going on, both at home and elsewhere. Rest assured that in a week’s time, I’ll be posting again regularly, at least until late August.
Check back again Wednesday night.
Filed under: Website on April 22nd, 2011 | No Comments »
I am still alive, but school, work, and a major kitchen project is keeping me from devoting my scant leisure time to writing. In general, if I have taken a break at all it has been to watch college baseball. I’ve made all but one home game this season, though I’ll miss tonight’s game because of my evening class. It remains to be seen whether or not I can get enough school work done to attend this weekend’s home series. I hope so.
Filed under: General, School, Website on March 22nd, 2011 | 1 Comment »
”I cannot believe it’s already December”, everyone says. I can’t either. I have a great deal to say, but until I finish writing twenty pages about the Haitian Revolution I cannot say it.
Check back after Friday for various ramblings about school and work, a first-time-in-years trip to Epcot, stories about family and friends, and the conclusion to my tale of vacation excitement in New York.
Filed under: School, Website on December 5th, 2010 | No Comments »