[KLUG Members] Emails and an Apology

[Andrew Thompson]

On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 13:07 -0500, greenproc wrote:
> Mark Jones wrote:
> > To All Members of KLUG,
> > 
> > I offer an apology if I have not responded to any emails sent to me
> during the last 3 months.  For the last year, many of you know that we
> were fighting a severe spam infestation.  Bob has done a wonderful job
> of eliminating that spam going through KLUG's servers.
> 
> My ISP has done a wonderful job of effectively blocking email sent to
> and from me, and there's little I can do about it.
> They absolutely refuse to turn off spam blocking for my account.
> 
> Mark, consider yourself lucky.  At least your GETTING the email in
> question, instead of your ISP silently blocking
> important communications to or from you.
> 
> I only wish I had a big 'ol mess of junk to sort through, it would be
> MUCH better than not having the communication at all.

No, you really don't. I've been through that myself, and believe me, you
do NOT want to have to sort through a ton of spam looking for one or two
emails that MIGHT be important. Seriously, no one has the time! The
worst part is having to do it day after day, because if you don't,
well... I came home after Thanksgiving last year to something around a
thousand messages after about four days away. I was lucky enough to be
able to set up my own filtering sytem on that service (their own sucks),
and coming home from Christmas wasn't nearly the same nightmare, thank
heaven.

You also don't have to depend on your ISP for email. I would recommend
looking into other email providers. There are at least a few out there
where you can set up a free account. I have one on fastmail.fm, for
example. Just look up 'free email' on Google, or look at mail.google.com
itself.

-- 
Andrew Thompson <tempes at ameritech.net>
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