jianantonic | (no subject)

I've had my primary email address for almost a full decade now, and I've done remarkably well at protecting it from spam. For a while I was averaging maybe two or three pieces of junk mail per day, but in just the last week or so, the amount of spam I get has SKYROCKETED. My filters do a pretty good job of moving it to my bulk folder, but I'm getting them by the dozen. Every time I check my mail, there's more in there. I delete it pretty regularly throughout the day, but I'd guess I'm getting somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 spam emails per day.

Like I said, it's filtered, so it's not a huge bother, but it's still annoying, so I went into my mail options to start blocking the most common spam domains, and I noticed that yahoo has a limited number of addresses you're allowed to block. What bullshit. I hate to part with an email address that's served me well for the past ten years, but it may be time. Yahoo, you are not my friend anymore.

You know what might have caused this? Yahoo had upped the number of marketing emails they send out to their members telling us about new mail features that we can get if we upgrade and stuff like that...so I started marking those as spam. Maybe the Yahoo people didn't think that was funny and decided to unleash the spammy wrath on me. Oh well.

So I may be in the market for a new email address. We'll see. I'll see if I can wait it out with Yahoo. It'll just be such a pain to change, and I do like how yahoo messenger gives me a little popup every time I get a new message. It helps keep me on top of things.

Anyhow, it's time to go to the gym. I have a training session tonight, and then I'm going to come home and crash. No massage tonight after all as Roope is feeling under the weather. I have to be at work really early tomorrow because I had so much going on today I fell a little behind and I do NOT like being behind. So I'm going to use that nasty habit of waking up at 5am to my advantage. Sigh.

Peace.