Jordan Independent - e-mail - Comments

I can sympathies i manage

jasonla — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:10:30 -0500

I can sympathies i manage over a dozen pop accounts all of which get sorted in outlook to their own inbox i'm receiving hundreds a week in junk and have seen them all. When i went on vacation to greece as i do each year for about a month i came home to find that when i set outlook to receive new emails there were a few thousand in the inbox. I try and take my laptop now on vacation to download emails on a regular basis last time i was away i was on a Royal Caribbean thankfully they had internet access. Occasionally i'll respond to emails like this taking up the time of the scamers and hoping i saved someone from dealing with them and just for kicks to see what they say when you respond. Whats sad is the real people who've sent them money thousands upon thousands from all over the world. Search youtube for nigerian scam and you'll see them being arrested over there but that does little to stop the emails.

But without all those junk

Ruth Anne Maddox — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:00:09 -0500

But without all those junk e-mails, I would never repeatedly win the lotteries of various countries or receive any "Dear Sweetest" letters begging for help with moving money into American bank accounts.

Just today, I was offered 20 percent of $45 million U.S. if I just use my bank account as a vehicle for exchange from Johannesburg, South Africa.

Mr. Richard Laubsheri assures me, "After going through some old files in the records, I discovered that if I do not remit this money out urgently it would be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account is Mr Smith B. Andrew, a foreigner, and a miner at a Gold Company, a geologist by profession and died since 2000. No other person knows this account or anything concerning it, the account has no beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that the company does not know anything about this account ..."

I am so honored to be chosen (insert strong sarcasm here). I can't believe that people actually fall for this and lose their life savings "helping" people.

Brandon, even previewing an

Kyle Thill — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:29:51 -0500

Brandon, even previewing an email is enough to launch the nasties, turn off your preview pane and keep your subscription to that virus program current and update often.

All the time, newspaper

Mathias Baden — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:11:58 -0500

All the time, newspaper employees, especially editors, get e-mails from people they don't know. I open all kinds of suspicious-looking e-mails, only to find out they are from a public-relations person who doesn't know how to keep his e-mails from looking like SPAM. A necessary evil of the trade, I think.

(Mathias Baden is the editor of the Jordan Independent. He can be reached at editor@jordannews.com.)

Well, I didn’t actually

Brandon — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:46:20 -0500

Well, I didn’t actually open the e-mail – I previewed it in Outlook. Besides, I believe my computer has a relatively good virus scanning program and I know I’ve seen this junk e-mailer before without any major problems.

Haven't you heard the

Ruth Anne Maddox — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:38:26 -0500

Haven't you heard the warning not to open e-mails if you don't know who they're from? You could have a virus now!

I’ve never been much for a

Brandon — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:43:11 -0600

I’ve never been much for a quote on the end of my e-mail. I know a bunch of people who do them, but I could never really find one that I liked enough to apply it to all my correspondences. One of my favorite quotes, though, has to be from Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle” – “Some people got free furniture, and some people got bubonic plague.”

The lesson of the cliche “you win some, you lose some,” has never been better stated. But is that really the message I want to send on all my e-mails? Probably not.

I love the dragon quote, though, and it’s so very true.