Blogs tagged with: Computers

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That's what lack of access to email feels like to me. Cut off. Blocked. Thwarted. But, really, what is it? What depends so much upon email that absence of it wreaks such havoc?

The world goes on just the same, and

It's interesting, this sense of not being heard, because, as I have been feeling this, I am receiving-- no exaggeration -- thousands and thousands of spam, 99.9% like this:

Mail Delivery System    Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender  

This morning

Personally, I am annoyed with spam. I get about 500 emails a day. No exaggeration. Every time I press Send and Receive, 100 to 150 emails come in, the bulk of which are  spam. Even though I keep pressing Block Sender, many of the same ones keep coming through.

My personal annoyance is one thing. My concern for the ideas spam promotes is another.