Saturday, November 12, 2005

Accomplishment

I have a dirty little secret to share with you all. I know, you're all on the edge of your seats just ready to hear something that would finally confirm what you've all thought about me!

I know some of you are like "Nah, she can't be that innocent, that sweet, I know there's a hidden secret lurking in there somewhere." Well today, lucky readers, I will divulge on one of my dirtiest little secrets.

Why?
Because I've finally cleaned it up.

Here it is:
For years I have let the email in my first ever yahoo address just pile up with spam. I didn't want to get rid of it because it's so old that my password is only 4 characters long. How can I get rid of such a relic? Or to put it more kindly, an antique!?

How much spam and other emails? Nearly in the hundred thousands! Hmm, I should have taken a picture of it before I decided to clean it up.

So about a month ago I decided that I would clean it out slowly. I set the minimum views per page at 200 emails and then everyday I would wipe out maybe 2000, doing so everyday until reaching the end, which was about 10 minutes ago.

Now the only problem is the upkeep. That means every few days I'll have to sign on and clean it up again.

That's the part I hate, the upkeep. That is true with almost everything. You can't just go on a diet once and lose all the weight and then go back to eating like a pig and not gain any weight. You can't get into an exercise regimen once and not keep it up for the rest of your life. You can't shower once and be clean forever, you gotta shower everyday, or else you're dirty again! And of course if you fall off you gotta get back on again and do double time to maintain. This is all to maintain!!! How horrible is that? I hate the upkeep.

The secret is to find everything you do awesome, that way you wouldn't hate it. Like I read all your blogs almost on a daily basis. Who am I kidding? I do read it on a daily basis. How can I do that but not something else everyday? Because reading about someone's life is awesome. Even the more boring ones. You know who you are...

So, in short, do everything with an open mind and willingness and all you'll have to upkeep is your love for life.

This was brought to you by the saint hellegood foundation for reading blindness.

Me.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Everything always boils down to "discipline". In order to enjoy anything you need discipline (self-control).

Anonymous said...

It might be a little easier to manage the spam. Maybe or maybe not. Here are some suggestions.

It would have been nice but I think it is only in the pay-version. Instead of deleting the mail, you would have marked it as Spam using the Spam button - this sends it to the Bulk Mail folder. In the pay-version it would train the email system to know what spam is. You still might do it that way though I'm not sure if it will do anything. Maybe it lets yahoo know in some way so it is a better idea than straight deleting.

Oh, since it's such an old account, make for heck sure that you have the "Spam Filter" ON. It might be possible that it's off. "Options > Spam Protection > Turn Spam Guard ON".

In the Spam options, it has the option of moving Spammers to the Blocked list too. But if you get too many it limits it at 500 blocked addresses.

The other option you can use is "filters". You can only set 15 but you could basically send everything that didn't meet a certain rule to the trash. So you could say, if it is not from "jim" or "tammy" then send it to the trash.

Michael "Paz" Pascua said...

Ironically enough, i did the cabbage diet over the summer lost 5 pounds and never gained it back...but i guess i'm just special like that.

DatingDisaster said...

I actually keep my very first e-mail address specifically FOR spam! Let me explain: anytime a business needs an address, like for ordering a DVD from Amazon or entering a contest, I give them that e-mail address. That way, if they sell my name to a list, it does not get mixed into my personal correspondence. It does require that dreaded upkeep, but if I check it every three days to a week, it stay manageable.

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