OT: Interesting Emails

[David E. Gervais]

Why is it that many people think 'Paying Less' is the same as 'Saving money'? It's not. To save money you need to stash it away for safe keeping. In the case of spending less it would mean depositing the 'difference' between the sale price and the regular price in a bank account so that it can gain interest.

But I digress, and this is my 2700th post

Cheers!

"A quilting we will go, A quilting we will go, Hi Ho The Merry-o A quilting we will go."

[geoschmo]

Well, it's semantics really, but you can be said to be saving money if you pay less for something that you were planning on buying anyway. But if the lower price inticed you buy something that you otherwise wouldn't have bought, then no, you aren't really saving anything.

[AgentZero]

I've got me a lovely little Yahoo account that only gets 5-10 spams a day & Thunderbird's junk filter handles most of those nicely. On the other hand, my hotmail account, which I use whenever a website asks me for an email addresss, gets 400 a DAY. Doesn't bother me though. Just cruise through every so often and delete everything. Easy peasy.

[AMF]

If anyone out there wants a Gmail account I can send them one. I have six to give away. You could start a gmail account anew and probably have it free from spam for some period of time provided you're cautious/diligent in not giving it out to websites or skeezoids...

Just send me an email, and I'll send you the gmail account invite...

thanks,

Alarik

[Baron Munchausen]

AgentZero said:
I've got me a lovely little Yahoo account that only gets 5-10 spams a day & Thunderbird's junk filter handles most of those nicely. On the other hand, my hotmail account, which I use whenever a website asks me for an email addresss, gets 400 a DAY. Doesn't bother me though. Just cruise through every so often and delete everything. Easy peasy.

Warning: As I have posted before, the word 'on the net' is that MS actually does harvest the email addresses of people you send Messages to and they get sold to various 'commercial' concerns who can then pass them on to spammers. The spammers just buy regular commercial lists If you ever receive email from other people who have hotmail accounts, you know where the spammers are getting your address.