Housekeeping on the Internet

Consider the internet my house. There are some areas of my house that are immaculate.

Compare reckless spam to dustballs under the bed. I lie in wait for those dustballs ready to pounce on them the minute they arrive. They don’t stand a chance. I hold the mouse in my hand like a dustmop, and no spam is left unscathed. I am merciless when it comes to those dustballs. You might say I’m obsessive. Hah, O you greeting cards that descend — no matter how many of you there are — you will never get past me. You are gone in a flash. Out out, brief spam.

There are other parts of my internet house that are more like stuffed closets. There are emails I must keep to read over some day. They have given me their joy, and I don’t want to part with them. I may be surprised when I come across them again, having forgotten them. They are memoirs. They are like great coats I don’t wear any more, and yet I might have use for them some day.

I would have stayed here longer to tell you more, to tell you everything actually, but I am on alert for pushy spam, and I must get back to spotlessness.

Meanwhile, perhaps you will fill in for me and tell us more about your housekeeping on the internet.

Posted by Gloria on July 18th, 2009 under these topics
Decluttering, computers, Purely Personal, Godwriting Journal

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Reply from Chuck Gebhardt on July 19, 2009

I am probably one of the last people one should look to for advice about using emails and the internet, but I can really empathize with you on spam, so I will at least try to help.

I have an AT&T email site that allows me to set up and store old emails in named folders in a very efficient and organized fashion. I suspect you already do this, but if you don’t………

A second, possibly useful, piece of advice is to use the specific spam blocking utility that I think most email programs allow. These block the specific address that a given spam sender uses. Once you take the few seconds to do this on a given piece of spam, no more from that site! Of course some serious spammers use multiple sites to send out their spam, but this utility still cuts it way back. I suspect you already do this too.

Maybe others more sophisticated than us have useful ideas beyond these obvious ones. I will await with interest.

Love…….Chuck

Reply from Gloria on July 19, 2009

Beloved Chuck, good to see you posting here again!

I’m in a rush so can only respond quickly.

When all is said and done, there is very little spam that I receive! Heaven Admin works his magic to protect my Inbox. None of the obnoxious spams reach me.

Lately I’m getting a lot of You have an e-card and harmless ones like that seem to stop by themselves after a while!

Loving you,

Gloria

Reply from One on July 20, 2009

The greeting card spam is a new one. The spammers are getting more and more inventive. With the e-card type spam, a Google page is created with the advertisement and the e-card contains only a link to the page. Very difficult for spam filters to block. Good thing they don’t stand a chance with you waiting to pounce on them.

Reply from Gloria on July 20, 2009

Yes, they don’t stand a chance!

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