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Green Eggs and Spam

Bulk email now accounts for all email traffic on the internet. Yahoo catches and diverts one billion spam messages every day.

I don't like spam

I receive 80 pieces of spam a day. Fake phishing emails that look like they’re from eBay or Citibank, ads to buy cheap drugs, online poker, get rich quick schemes, free credit cards. And lots of offers for sex.

I have a spam email box that catches 95% of the spam, but it also catches the occasional legitimate email, too. I still have to look over the email subjects. Looking over 80 in one day is bad enough, but it’s gets wearisome that it’s adding up. Over 400 spam emails this week, over 20,000 in a year. And that’s just spam sent to me.

There’s got to be a better way.

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Follower of Jesus, conservative, freedom-loving patriot.

2 responses to “Green Eggs and Spam”

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    rachel

    I have huge super massive spam protecters. I have large guys who stand around and protect me from spam. I had to change my email address. (atleast the one all the spam was going to).. that was after getting like over 300 a day.

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    Michael

    The account that gets all the spam is my primary email, same as my ISP account. I really can’t change it. I can ignore it, but I can’t change it. I think if I get to 300 a day, though, I’d give up email completely.

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Michael, a sinner saved by grace, sharing what the good Lord has shared with me.

Solomon, in the book of Ecclesiastes, said, “I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.”

If you’re not living for the glory of God, then what you’re doing is meaningless, no matter what it is. Living for God gives life meaning, and enjoying a “chasing after the wind” is a gift from God. I’m doing what I can to enjoy this gift daily.

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