Thursday, April 10, 2008

Spam-tastic!

Yahoo, I know you are out trying to shop your self around to the highest bidder. You have your high heels on, your push-up bra, and you are walking the streets of acquisition looking for the right price. Yahoo, I must tell you that you have a gigantic hole in your fish-net stockings, it's called spam.

Internet e-mail seems to me to be one of those no-brainer things. I have had an account with you since 90's, so we have been together almost ten years. In ten years of me using your (granted it's free) e-mail, I am amazed at how you have never been able to figure out how to block spam. See I report all the evil spam that I recieve to you in hopes that you will pull your crap together and learn how to block it. I have reported the same 7 chicks that e-mail me millions of times. If I report the same names over and over again - don't you think Yahoo that means that I don't want to receive spam from then and ergo you should not put it in my main mailbox. For god sakes it says "Sexually Explicit" in the subject line. Is that too hard to identify?

On top of all the sexually explicit spam I get, I am lucky enough to receive solicitations for prescription medication. Yahoo are you trying to tell me that I should drug myself and watch porn? Because this is the crap that you send to my Inbox - along with fake lottery winnings. You have turned my Inbox into a cesspool and not matter how much reporting I do, you still can't pull it together and block the crap. I have to wade through all the nonsense just to get to the two legitimate e-mails that I get a day.

I have been using Gmail for quite some time, and it has superior spam blocking super powers. And we all know that Google's search engine is so much better. Yahoo, in my humble opinion, you need to apply another layer of lipstick and not ask for too much.

2 comments:

foolery said...

Oh, this was great.

Surprisingly, I get very few SPAM e-mails from my Yahoo account. I was getting over 100 a day on my work e-mail until we switched to a Yahoo-based server, and now it's more like 60 a day.

I got an e-mail from Bob Jesus today, so there are a few benefits to SPAM.

;)

p.s. It just occurred to me -- you didn't make it to Bossy's S.F. party, did you?

KathyLikesPink said...

I have used Google email for about 9 months now and I love it. I'm trying to convince all my friends and family to use it! The bells and whistles are really helpful.