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Spam has changed the way I email

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Posted by: host	1/19/2007 8:54 AM
Everyone who has an email address has received spam so I'm sure there are some sympathizers out there. I used to check all my email accounts at once through Outlook to save time. But now I get so much spam on all my accounts, even those I've guarded, that it can take me over an hour to sift through all the garbage each time I get email. Between 5 email accounts I receive over 500 spam emails a day. Just a side effect from having a web presence for so long I guess. Who actually responds to that trash? Much of it is indecipherable - not even real English words. If it didn't make money, people wouldn't do it. Regardless, I had to stop the time hemmorage. Now, I'm back to using Internet Mail. I log directly into the server and delete all the spam there. Almost every web email system I've ever used has a way to select and delete multiple messages at once. It now takes me at most 10 minutes to sort through it all and hand-pick the real messages and dump the rest into the cyber delete bin. After the spam is gone, I download everything into Outlook where I can manage it. I cut the time I wasted on spam email down to an hour a week instead of an hour a day. Its still too much time, but when I think about how long I spend looking at billboards, its probably about the same. Spam is just worse because I physically have to deal with it. I guess its like being a truck driver and having to stop at all those roadside weigh stations - annoying, but just part of the gig.

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