Jul 27 2005
Irritating Junk Mails With Large Attachments
I am quite slow with my blog reading. Today only read about 5xmom’s Email Forwards.
I also hate junk mails a lot, especially junk mails with large attachments when I am traveling.
During travel, I have to work on emails at night (daytime usually occupied with meetings). Imagine: me, sitting in front of my machine at 1am, waiting for my emails to be downloaded, and these junk mail with 3MB each jammed the traffic… I often have to let the machine run for 2 hours, before I can start work at 3am.
The big files usually are transforms of simple 10 sentences advice/poem/rubbish into big huge PowerPoint full of pictures. When that happens, I really curse the sender. Don’t expect me to read those at that hour – so I normally just delete them without reading.
Sorry if you happen to be one of my readers, I am just being frank with you and let you know how I feel and how inconvenient it has caused to me.
Another story to share re junk mails – how I have innocently offended my friend.
3 years ago when I took a long leave to attend my wedding, before I left I sent an email to my friends to inform them about my long absence and urged them not to send any junk mails as it may flood my inbox when I return to work. That email was sent to ALL my friends.
One fella replied with anger, and claimed that he has never and will not send me junk mails, and he is so upset with my note that he will not send me ANY emails in the future. We stopped communicating in mails after that.
Such an over sensitive person! A man some more. NVM lah, if he can’t take that kind of notification email, I don’t think he is an understanding friend anyway, no loses at my end.
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that’s why I like Gmail lor, I used streamyx before, ai yoh…like you said lor, wait for the mail to download, broadband also me me bore to wait.
That’s y i use several mail box. and i seperate my working one with junks one.
and thanks to my company, they have a good spam killer to filter out all the uneccessary mail.
twinsmom: actually I got stuck with my office email, i.e. Outlook email (with Exchange server). So, no other options ler.
lockee: sometimes unavoidable because they are my friends mah. They have my personal email address, but they also have my office address (from my namecard mah!). Is not really spam, they can be sending real emails. They always think it is a good way of ‘getting in touch’, without realising how inconvenient it is to others.