Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Email Problems

Many people still have milk and newspapers delivered daily to the doorstep. You have to tell them to stop when you go on vacation, otherwise there is a stack of stale news and rank milk awaiting your return.

I get a daily delivery of poorly spelled and curiously punctuated email into my Inbox, inviting me to partake of various strange potions and ambitious financial and anatomical services. Some of the senders of these interesting messages are kind enough to send many identical or similar copies. Although much of this email traffic is filtered out, it remains in a separate folder on the server, in case I need to inspect it.

If only I could contact the senders of these interesting messages, I could ask them to hold their fire until my return. Alas, they shyly conceal their kindness behind false or stolen names.

As a result, my mailbox was full within 2 or 3 days of my leaving for vacation. (Nice and hot, thank you for asking.) Any email that was sent me after this time would have been rejected and possibly returned. If you have sent me an email in the past couple of weeks, I probably didn't get it. Please resend.