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?