Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 21, 2012

Works for me.

I wish I could do that, but I’d end up deleting some important emails.

I prefer the “select all,” “archive” method.

It works okay, except when it doesn’t. Tricky thing, those e-mails; but they are obsolescent, as social networking and texting are replacing them as the favored means of quick communication.

rat found a job as a mail daemon

If it weren’t for spam I’d get no mail at all. I even like my junk snail-mail.

For some reason I think Patis is showing through his characters.

BahramtheRed,…. Duh……

Most of it is junk mail anyways. Let’s be honest, how many of us have a dozen or so pages of unread e-mails because most of it is junk mail that didn’t end up in our spam box? Probably 20% of my inbox I read, the other 80% is junk mail. And it gathers for a few months until I finally clean it out.

yipes, after all this time rat still scares me

One good thing about email….You will never get a registered letter……yet.

and your point is you want to be more like rat?

Rat continues to be my hero!!!!

Caller ID and email – Ignore & Delete/Archive – both timesavers & stress reducers

that is my trick

If you guys are getting junk mail, you’re doing something wrong (or misclassifying what junk mail is. It’s not junk mail if you signed up to get it!) Seriously. I get none. Zero. If filters don’t clear it out, then it’s time for a new email address. When you get a new one, only give it out to things you need! I get my bills by email for example. And my stock reports. If you want to get other stuff, get ANOTHER email address. I have no social networking and nothing will ever replace email for me, either (in the foreseeable future). I seriously don’t ever want my bills to be on any social network site. There are communications that I do not EVER wish the entirety of humankind to read. The NSA is fine, though.

Good for Rat. I’ve the same frame of mind.. I’ve had the same eMail address for 16 years and got my share of SPAM, but at least at this age, I know how to handle it. My idjit friends and relatives who think I can’t live without the latest fwd;fwd;fwd;fwd;fwd don’t know it, but they’ve been ‘filtered’ and wind up in SPAM sandwiches. Result: peaceful day.Facebook, sexting, texting and other natterings is too much a time-waster, especially getting dozens of eMails telling me that somebody said something to/about somebody I know on Facebook. I must look into this mystery.. Maybe if I ‘Unfriended’ myself……………….

Delete…did THAT yesterday. Frees the spirit.

LOL LOL.

What if one email was from a secret admirer?

xxx

But I enjoy insipid comments – the insipider the better – kinda like yours.

Thank you, friends.Yes, I know we don’t know anything about each other beyond our screen names and our taste in comics. These days, that’s a lot.

Gee, I thought I was one of the few who refuses to do Facebook and the like! Glad to know I’m not! :-)

And I’m getting fed up with it more and more, “like us on Facebook”. “Get on our Facebook page for free coupons”, etc. I look for the Sunday newspaper coupon inserts to all disappear because everything will be on Facebook. If that happens, guess I won’t be saving much money anymore.

Number 6, I have had my Spam for the Year, you know, thanks to you in the first place. It really isn’t good for you. Are you trying to tempt me into developing high cholesterol? :-D

Stephan HAS to make a pearls website, it would rock

orinoco, I have an M.A. in Interpersonal Communication. (and Communication in an Organization). I’m amazed at how you can get to “know” people in forums like this. (This is my only one, Hey, I’m retired, I don’t have the time!) But seriously, it is interesting how well you can get to know someone, even if you don’t know who they are. That wasn’t covered in my studies back in the eighties….

the last time i checked, the mails i get are all spams..

“BRILLIANT!!!!!!!”