I have three e-mail accounts. Long ago I got to the point where I used just one of them, and I actually forgot my password for my second AOL account. I let it lie fallow until tonight when I noticed I had 44 e-mails. I had to go in and change the password so I could access the account.
I'm sure you're way ahead of me at this point. What I had was 44 pieces of spam, which had come in over the past 30 days. I realize that this is a very minor amount of spam; I get a lot more than that on my active account. I'm astounded that it has crept into an account which isn't used. I never surf with that account, and have not even opened it in more than two years.
AOL seems to feel that I should open that spam, collect the addresses and then report the mail as spam. In return, they will identify the mail as (spam) when it hits my mailbox the next time around. Why don't they delete accounts which send spam? Why do I have to risk opening mail from strangers in order to do their work?
I noticed that AOL was proudly announcing that they had seriously cut back complaints about spam. I suspect that members have simply stopped talking to them about it. Until they develop a better method for deleting it, why should we bother?
Comments (3)
Spam...ugh!
Thought you might want to know I posted some Iris pictures for you...more will follow!
Posted by PJ | March 27, 2004 10:01 PM
Posted on March 27, 2004 22:01
Gadzooks! I am William Shakespeare (without the goatee).
Posted by Cop Car | March 28, 2004 12:38 AM
Posted on March 28, 2004 00:38
I'll come visit, P.J. I bet they're beautiful! Mine won't bloom until late May.
Cop Car, have you been doing those silly tests again???
I guess I shouldn't complain. Jamie said she was off line for two weeks and came back to a thousand emails and only ten of them weren't spam. Maybe I need to keep a low profile.
Posted by Buffy | March 28, 2004 9:18 PM
Posted on March 28, 2004 21:18