Folks, I’m not downloading my email to the loaner computer, as I think it’s pretty much a waste of time and energy. What I’m doing is eliminating the spam on the server and moving my email into a waiting folder until I get my laptop back from HP.
If you have something important to tell me, you probably want to send it to me via my gmail account, which is my first name, a dot, my last name, and the usual second half of an email address.
Otherwise, you may as well just send it to me via paper airplane, because that’s about the speed I’m going to get my email.
By the way, you may not want to use the word “lottery” in any emails to me. I’ve decided to filter that one on the server level, joining “Taiwan” on the hit list. “Euro” is just about to go next, but I’m sure someone is eventually going to title an email to me “European blahblahblah,” so I’m holding off.
If you win the lottery, I’m simply never going to hear about it via email.
Tell you what: If you win the lottery, just let me know by hitting the tipjars with the biggest-ever contribution. I’m sure I’ll figure it out from there.
In other site news, I have noticed that not so many of you are watching the kitty movies. This does not mean I will cease making them. It simply means I’m not going to knock myself out getting them up every week. Every other week, probably, or depending on whether or not I’m in the mood to take a movie.
On the other hand, you may be missing some kick-ass commentary if you’re not watching the movies. My next commentary includes my foray into Latin. That’s right, Victor Davis Hanson isn’t the only blogger who can toss the Cicero-ball.
Now there’s an idea. Kitty movies with a Meryl commentary for background. Hm. I wonder if the podcasting world can stand it.
you might see if you can include a blank in the server exclides for spam and if so put Euro forrowed with a blank if you are getting spam about the currency
Don, have you forgotten the infamous “Uh, folks, I put a blank space into a spam filter and lost all my email” post?
I haven’t.
Me and spaces in spam filters… bad idea.
I think the lottery one is mostly taking are of it. You see, I’ve won the European lottery at least a hundred times by now.
Sorry I forgot that post
My experience with gmail has been that you do not need to create an explicit set of filters. Just go through the mail and hit the “This is spam” button on the gmail.com website. I get minimal spam and never get it a second time.
I have also gone through and identified a few “non-spam” messages but that is extremely rare.
It actually is worth it to use the gmail.com before downloading to my machine just to ensure that the spam filters are up to date.
I also use the “Delete all spam” button rather than waiting a full month for the automatic delete to kick in.
I don’t like using gmail for anything but my podcast mail because it’s the most intrusive email service out there.
Google monitors EVERYTHING you see, EVERYWHERE you go, ALL of the searches you do–screw them. It’s none of their business what I do.
I think I’m going to stop using their search engine. Between that, and Amazon riding me for every product I search and trying to get me to “buy related products,” it makes me think that we don’t have to worry about the government monitoring us. All we have to worry about is the govt. getting Amazon and Google to turn over their records.
Movies of Tig and Gracie will make the podcasting world a much nicer place.