Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Email Dysfunction


Ah, yes, spring is in the air -- when a young man's fancy turns to love and innocent romance!

Well, not really, but that's what the manufacturers of erectile dysfunction remedies would want you to believe, and it's also a good excuse and  strategic marketing ploy for them to start sending out  all those disgusting spam emails to tout their products which show up in your inbox; and lately, I've noticed that I've been getting more than the usual amount of these types of thing --  a "surge" if you will (no pun intended) which I'm not exactly shouting "Yahoo!" about.

What can you do about them? Well you can simply delete them,  or mark them as spam and delete them (or if you're Hillary Clinton, forward the E-D ones on to Bill -- as opposed to the emails you've already labeled "CLASSIFIED" and deleted), and hopefully they won't be a bother.

But the best remedy (no pun intended) is a preemptive one, to recognize them when they first show up. They usually are coming from email addresses with catchy double entendre names, so they shouldn't be all that difficult to spot.  However, just in case you don't have the time to try and track all of them (or don't know what double entendre means), let me help you with...

THE TOP TEN NAMES YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE SHOW UP IN YOUR EMAIL INBOX

10) DICK FULLER

9) WALLY BIGGERSTAFF

8) ROD SPRINGER

7) MAX PETERS

6) MAJOR JOHNSON

5) MILES O'TOOLE

4) B. HARDIN LONG

3) HUGH JORGAN

2) KIM DONG HUNG

AND THE NUMBER ONE NAME YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE SHOW UP IN YOUR EMAIL INBOX...

SEYMOUR WOODCOCK, JR

Hopefully, that should clean up your email -- well, at least until Valentine's Day.

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"Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength."
  
-- Thomas Pynchon