I wanted to let you all know that I have been having problems with my e-mail system. The problem could cause me to lose e-mail from anyone mailing me. The problem could cause me to not reply to questions about classes or any services. The problem is... SPAM. Yes, it’s a rant, and it’s not about the product by Hormel.
I think we all know how much spam we each get. I saw a study which stated that 80% of all e-mail coming in to corporate mail boxes is spam. I actually know people that change their e-mail address a couple times a year because they get too much spam. But really, you can tell a lot about yourself from spam. Seriously. No, seriously. You want to know what I’ve learned about myself? Well you’re going to anyway.
From the spam I receive, I know that...
I’m paying too much for my mortgage. I need to get a college degree, in fact, several. I need some device to pick up and decode satellite signals without paying for them (of course, I have to pay for the device). I need to stop paying full price for Microsoft software, and get it for a lot less. I need massive amounts of drugs that I can get online without seeing a doctor for a prescription. I need drugs to perk me up, drugs to slow me down and drugs to even me out. I need drugs to make parts of me smaller and drugs to make parts of me bigger. I’m obviously having trouble with my love life as I need Viagra, cialis, and xanax by the ton. When I’ve had that, I’ll need the pain reliever that I can get in large quantities. I also need drugs to grow more hair, and the great thing is that I can get all of these with complete confidentiality. But of course after the pain goes away, I can get these other medications to make me younger. (And we thought Ponce de Leon had the right idea. Just think what he could have done with internet marketing.) Of course, after I see my credit card bills for what I’ve spent on drugs, I can get consolidation loans so I’m not paying so much in interest each month to keep me evened out.
I definitely need Adobe Photoshop even though I don’t use half the graphics programs I have to their fullest extent. To go with that I need lots of discount software to fill up my hard drive. I need to see women naked, and I even need to see men naked, after all I get lots of offers. There are plenty of web cams I need to be viewing and I need to take advantage of some of the blind dates I’ve been set up for, but I think I’ll let my wife pick the best one. I need software to prevent me from getting viruses, of course that was probably a virus telling me so. I need software to prevent me from getting a lot of spam. (I know this because some spam message told me so.) and I need software to make my computer run faster. I know this because some piece of software told me so, it told me that my computer is slow because there is too much software on the hard drive. And if time weren’t such an issue I wouldn’t need the Rolex watches that I keep getting offered.
I need lots of money, and can do that by selling things out of my home. The other way I can get money is by giving some foreign ruler my bank account so I can get a percentage of the billions they need to move into this country. (Uh huh.) Of course, there are great stock tips that are taking off, and I can be a part of it.
The bottom line is that I’m too old, too fat, too small, and too stupid. Well, if I believed even a small percentage of that, I would be too stupid.
The truth is that I must have used my Reiki mailing address (Brian@ReikiHolisticHealing.com) to buy something at some point in time. Because of this, I get over 100 spam e-mails per day. (When I went away for three days, I had almost 400 pieces of e-mail that came into my system. Out of all that, there were only 10 pieces of mail that were not spam.) In fact, spam has been coming to my Massage address (Brian@CaringPalms.com), but only a little. I have changed the mailing of both sites to go to the massage address as most of the spam comes from the Reiki one. I’m planning on changing my pop up mail from the sites so that something is added to the subject line so I know it came from the site. When I turn the computer on in the morning and see 53 pieces of mail, I need to go through them to see if any are truly valid, and I have almost missed some on occasion.
What I’m asking is to please be patient with me. It is not easy going through my daily mail and finding something good. If you send me mail, and I don’t reply within a couple days, please send it to me again. It may have been a victim of my being too tired, and not seeing that it was not spam. Put something in the subject line that will let me know it is not spam.
I appreciate your understanding, and I thank you. May your path be filled with love and light and may it be completely spam free.