Apr 29 2009
Protecting Spam….
Why is it, that e-mail protects spam mail from accidental erasure? If I want to delete my regular mail by accident, it will allow it, but just try it with spam and a box pops into your life and forces, yes forces, me to reconsider this horrendous decision and ponder the consequences….
My own dear mother can e-mail me, and I can read and delete it without a problem, no pop ups, no hand reaching out of the computer to slap the arrogance from my face.
But, If the President of Nigeria writes me an e-mail from his personal e-mail account at iscamu@ucantstopme.com they want to be darn sure I don’t screw up and accidentally delete that important e-mail!
Even in the mass delete mode they have to include a pop up to check and make absolutely sure I am sane and aware that I am throwing away my last chance at collecting that $250,000,000 My dead Nigerian relative are desperately trying to leave me.
Yet I am only a mouse indiscretion away from losing an e-mail that actually made it into the inbox on purpose, an e-mail from someone that I have seen a picture of, and that has been at family reunions.
Thomas H. Forthe
