[Rhodes22-list] STOP THE MADNESS!

[Michael D. Weisner]

Slim,

I'm glad that you have found a "solution".  These efforts are a great waste
of technology!  Not to mention a fantastic waste of your time.  There should
be a better way of dealing with the spam.

Mike
s/v Shanghai'd Summer


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Slim" <salm at mn.rr.com>
To: "Rhodes22-list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] STOP THE MADNESS!


> Eureka!  I just figured out how to access my phone email on the web so I
can
> deal with it as easily as I deal with my regularly-scheduled spam at my
main
> address.   I just deleted 35 spam emails with a click of the mouse on my
> laptop.  Yay!
>
> Technology really is won'erful.
>
> Slim
>
> On 8/21/06 1:48 PM, "Michael D. Weisner" <mweisner at ebsmed.com> wrote:
>
> > To paraphrase a famous philosopher: "Technology: Ain't it won'erful!"
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Slim" <salm at mn.rr.com>
> > To: "Rhodes22-list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> > Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 2:42 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] STOP THE MADNESS!
> >
> >
> >> Mike,
> >>
> >> Oh, great!  It wouldn't be so bad were it not so tedious to deal with.
My
> >> phone rings with a message so I click on it and wait and wait for each
> > page
> >> to boot up.  First it takes me to the main menu then the inbox then the
> >> first message then the body of the message then I select delete then
"are
> >> you sure?" with each page taking 20-30 seconds to load.  It takes
nearly 5
> >> minute just to delete one message!  And during this process, I will
> >> invariably be "timed out" and have to log back in.
> >>
> >> The internet service from Sprint is called "Sprint Vision" and allows
for
> >> email, picture transfers, text messaging,  and so on but all I ever use
it
> >> for is a weather program called "MyCast" which shows me weather radar
and
> >> forecasts that come in useful out on the boat.  Maybe it's not worth
it.
> >>
> >> Slim
> >>
> >> On 8/21/06 12:59 PM, "Michael D. Weisner" <mweisner at ebsmed.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Slim,
> >>>
> >>> The really unfortunate part of all this is that even when
unsubscribed,
> > the
> >>> email address will have been added to the publicly available info,
since
> > the
> >>> R22 messages are scanned by Google regularly.  You should start
getting
> >>> porn, stock and Nigerian scam spam on your cell phone email in about 2
> >>> weeks!
> >>>
> >>> Mike
> >>> s/v Shanghai'd Summer
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Herb Parsons" <hparsons at parsonsys.com>
> >>> To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >>> Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 1:34 PM
> >>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] STOP THE MADNESS!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I'm still laughing. Made me want to go back and dig out the original
so
> > I
> >>> could post it, and forward it to all my friends (sorry, I have this
> > thing
> >>> about having fun when technology doesn't work right). Unfortunately, I
> >>> usually delete messages right after I read them.
> >>>
> >>> Can you post another one from your phone, so I can play too?
> >>>
> >>> Herb Parsons
> >>>
> >>> S/V O'Jure
> >>> 1976 O'Day 25
> >>> Lake Grapevine, N TX
> >>>
> >>> S/V Reve de Papa
> >>> 1971 Coronado 35
> >>> Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana Coast
> >>>
> >>>>>> salm at mn.rr.com 8/20/2006 2:58:30 am >>>
> >>> Dear Rummy, Robert, Hank, Mark, Mike, et al,
> >>>
> >>> Thank you all very much for the input on my CB cleat fix--but there's
a
> >>> problem.  When I first posted my message about it, I sent a picture I
> > took
> >>> with my phone camera.  I hope you all looked at the picture because I
> > went
> >>> to great lengths to figure out how to post a picture from my phone!
> > Well,
> >>> now every reply to this thread makes my phone ring!!!  And my service
is
> >>> relentless:  "You have an important message from Sprint Picture Mail"
> > and if
> >>> I don't respond, it keeps ringing me. Worse, I can't figure out how to
> > stop
> >>> it.
> >>>
> >>> I hear Napoleon Dynamite in my head saying, "Idiot!"
> >>>
> >>> Feel free to continue posting messages at will concerning this very
> >>> important topic but please stop replying to the original thread.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> Slim
> >>>
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