Friday, March 6, 2009

E-mail Attitudes

Everybody has one. Nobody's is the same.

Some say let the sun shine in. Others don't
want anything more than a single ray to get
through their filter.

So what happened? Who won? I guess you
could say two opposite thoughts spread out the
territory. Google, on one side, said give me
all your mail, spam and all. I've got storage
for everything you’ all can throw at me.

AOL, on the other hand, said they needed
permission from their client's to forward
anything at all to their clients inboxes. “Unless
you”, the sender, “are white-listed by our client,
your mail will be forwarded to the trash can”.

Every other mail service like Yahoo, MSN, AT&T,
etc. all have different tolerance levels. This
spawned a whole bunch of bad grammar. All of a
sudden money became mo*ney, and free became
fr*e or fr.ee. I am an agreeable guy but I don't
like my lexicon mangled.

Here is my open letter to my provider and, I hope
through him, to any spammers:

Dear filter screen thwarter,

I like reading the Queen's English. I like to
connect with what I am reading and I don't
connect with fr.ee, or fr*e or some other spam
filter frustrator abomination of the English
language.

If what you are trying to sell me you need to
sneak past my filter, I want your message to be
screened. If you do state your pitch clearly and
I like don't like your pitch, I want you to be
spammed, damned, and banned forever more!

On the other hand, if I like your message, I want
to be connected immediately to your server, so
my order can be processed without delay.

And I expect my scanner to know what I want.

Any questions?

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Talk about a backfire!

President Obama and Prime Minister Brown touched upon the need to creat a world regulating agency which would oversee all financial institutions -- banking -- everything, tracking all money moving anywhere.

So the bankers really blew it for themselves this time. No more international safe havens. No more protection from prying eyes.

What if all of a sudden, follow the money actually lead somewhere?

What if we could see the red stain of cash making a trail all the way from our pile in the desert back through Halliburton to Dick Cheney's pocket? But that will never happen. Who would be brave enough to dip his toe in that river of molten lava. For all we know the last guy to disagree with Dick got his face shot off.

But maybe big oil, and big money, and the big guns got too big for their britches. (I hope -- I don't want this to pi** off anyone still important) Just maybe world government is the only way to effectively regulate big world-wide businesses.

Let's see; from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. I make $18(average country wage) and the guy responsible for losing trillions received just shy of a half a million for that same hour. Assuming we both have weekends off, of course.

Yeah, right, I want protect this guy's right to put all that money into his pocket at the expense of my kids education, health care, clean air and the environment. Or do I?