This is becoming a regular occurrence: someone is trying to bomb my email address again, with 5-10,000 junk emails pouring in each hour. Look, fool, this is a waste of effort: the effect is that the activity monitor on my sidebar shows a lot of red and green bars, and my email software gets really sluggish as it sucks up all the garbage and automatically throws it away. If you're trying to inconvenience me, this is a rather silly, pointless way of doing it.
If you're trying to get through to me by email, the one real problem this causes is that I'm not going to be checking it for a while, until the dumb twit with the automatic mailer gets tired of it. If you need to tell me something, the contact information up there has some suggestions.
More like this
Last week we asked readers to answer some questions about how they managed their email. The results are in, and boy are they ... confusing. We're having trouble identifying any clear patterns at all in email management. First of all, let's get a sense of the scale of the problem.
Charles Kroll is the presumed husband of "Melanie," the person who's work email account was used to send PZ Myers a very nasty death threat. This is the death threat:
CogDaily readers are certainly opinionated about email sign-offs.
No, wait ... not exactly. Well, sort of.
We all thought Facebook would be announcing Facebook.com, the email server to end all googles. But instead it launched something else. It is called a "Modern Messaging System" and it combines email, instant messages, and SMS.
Why do I think that activity like that would melt the MnSCU server we all have to share?
(This is a Minnesota specific reference; you're not meant to understand it if not attached to either the U of M or one of the MN state uni's)
Hmmm...the UMM web server was brought down by hackers for several days last week...
In addition to being relatively ineffective, it's illegal and unethical. But I don't find these things are boundaries for action by fanataics. Even fanatics that espouse ethics and law.
So what do you use for spam filtering, PZ?
Spamming for Jebus?
What Would Jesus Spam?
What sort of Spam would Yeshua use?
( No Pork, because he was jewish ??? )