Spam Is Not Only a Food Option

I subscribe to a newsletter from The Consumerist. Most if not all of the articles are US based, which does not aid my way of living either way, but it does help me stay up to date with what is happening there. Today, there was an article on SPAM, not the supposed food product that came in can, which my mother served with fried eggs on top, during economically challenging times, but that hateful e-mail we find in our in-box. A survey shows that 12% of the survey group actually responds to the spam messages. With a rate like that, it is obvious that spam is not going to disappear anytime soon. You can read the article here and within it there is a link to download the survey. http://tinyurl.com/no3lzg This comment that struck my funny bone, since the person's spam comes in Hungarian and they are presumably in the US. Most of the time, I open Google or even Blogspot, it starts in Hungarian making me navigate to English. Google.hu is the default regardless of how many times I have changed and saved my preferences. If all of my spam were in Hungarian, it would be so much easier to ignore; I cannot read it anyway. In the past, not being able to tell the difference between the good and the ugly, I have been guilty of forwarding pieces to students for translation with embarrassing results for both of us. Opps!

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E-mailing While on Vacation?

Here is a post from Christopher Elliott's newsletter that I can certainly relate to, but then again I check e-mail for the business more so than personal reasons...unlike some I know. You know who you are. The guests who never see the city because you cannot drag yourself away from e-mail, Facebook, or Twitter. http://www.elliott.org/blog/on-vacation-odds-are-youre-checking-email-over-and-over-and-over-and-over/

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Share

I was finally able to get the "Share" button to work after each post. If you read a post you want to share or e-mail, you can click on the box and options will pop up. If you would like to share or e-mail the entire blog, you can use the "Share" button on the right hand side.

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