| Subject: Another.......boring............day............zzzzzzzzzzzzz |
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Dave P.
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Date Posted: 18:20:42 05/02/05 Mon
I don't know if it's just me (you buggers don't answer questions on this board, so I won't bother asking) but my 'junk' email seems to have dried up. I use an email programme called Incredimail and one of the features is that I have a "Junk & Unapproved" box that does just what it says on the label. Unless I have already approved the addressee, it all goes into the junk box and I clean it out a few times a day. Now, at first I was getting approx 10 - 15 junk mails a day. This gradually increased, until it peaked (for a couple of months) at about 60 per day. Then started to drop off, slowly, and for the last few months has been pretty steady at approx 20 per day. In the past week, however, I have only been getting three or four per day and, over this weekend, I have had two days without any at all. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining,................. well I am!..............no I'm not...............well. The thing is, when I was getting loads of crap, I knew my email was working OK. Now I get nothing and I'm worrying that something is wrong with my email programme? No pleasing some people is there? (Funny, that's just what Jesus said, Sir!) Sorry, can't help it. Certain phrases remind me of my favourite film "The life of Brian". Anyway, back to the email. I know it's working because I can send emails out, no problem. It's just that I get so few genuine emails (Aaaaa!) I get paranoid. How f***ing sad am I?
There are, actually, a couple of reasons why that this state of affairs could have come about. I don't open junk emails (even to see what they are about) I just delete them off hand. I used to 'bounce' them back to the sender, until I was advised that all that accomplished was to confirm that my email address was 'live' and guaranteed even more junk. Even just opening and reading a junk mail can reveal the fact that your email address is live. I started to use a 'proxy' to download material off the net. This is called "my trash mail". It's a free service and it allows me to use their web site to download to, using their email address and a 'temporary' account (7 days) that they set up for me. Setting up the account is as easy as picking a name and sticking it on the front of their email address i.e. donky@mytrashmail.com. I then collect it from them (using the name 'donkey'). They promise not to pass on your email address and, so far (ten months), appears to be genuine.
There you are folks, another ten minutes of you life wasted reading my drivel.........................
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