My views on spam mail and junkmail

An Excerpt

Spam vs JunkMail

How could I ever have conceived of anything worse than the myriads of junk mail that is stuffed in my letterbox, thrown in my garden, tossed on my driveway and dropped at my front door? Do I look at any of it? Rarely. I’m one of those people who hate shopping, and yes, I am a female and I’m told one of a kind because I don’t like shopping and I don’t like window shopping and I most definitely don’t like leaflets and the like dropped around my haven for me to dispose of. Seems to me if these stores have so much money to waste on advertising why don’t they lower their prices instead and do away with the junk mail? However, one of my sons loves junk mail so I guess some mothers do have them.

I’ve emptied the letterbox, picked up the papers from the driveway, the garden, from around the front door and tossed them all in the recycle bin. I unlock my front doors, enter my haven and sigh for there’s no junk mail lurking inside. Or is there? Oh yes, there certainly is but of a different kind, a sneaky kind that I can’t see until I turn on my computer and download my mail. Oh oh, here it comes flooding in. It’s even worse than the junk mail because there are some pretty disgusting pictures that greet me with some of my spam mail. And since when did I need viagra pills or penis enlargement creams? The schoolgirl pornography mail really makes my blood boil, as do the hundreds of other pornographic pictures that I receive. I got into the habit for a while of sending them on to my Internet provider and asked the question ‘why’? ‘I pay $65 a month to be online and have all this unsolicited filth invade my life?’ Of course they didn’t bother answering but perhaps I did have a little bit to do with them closing down a particular port that was allowing a lot of this garbage through. Since it closed I haven’t received any of that type of mail. However, now I’m inundated by unsolicited mail trying to sell me goods that usually are for the USA market only. When is someone going to realise that .au mean Australia? When/if they ever do my spam mail will almost be zero. Perhaps it is too much to expect that someone might have the brains out there to work that out.