Comments | lablackey: Curse you, woman!

lablackey

Curse you, woman!

Aug 13, 2007 16:41

Son of a beaver! I love my mother to pieces, but she has really done it this time. She signs me up for offers on Baby-to-be dot com and uses my personal e-mail account - the one I only use to e-mail friends and family...okay and get LJ stuff, but still. The next thing I know I have 107 messages in my Inbox and it's all SPAM! And I can get the ( Read more... )

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nnwest August 14 2007, 00:08:10 UTC

Sounds like someone's mom needs to get a magical disappearing email address. Places like spamgourmet.com--good goddess, let me gush over spamgourmet--offer email addresses that you can shut down at will or assign an exclusive sender to (i.e. your mom can send mail to it, but she can't give it to anyone).

And if you need a smut safe-house once the sprog gets to a certain age, you know where I can be found. ;)

lablackey August 15 2007, 22:12:14 UTC

Fantastic - NNWest's house o porn storage. I'll check out spamgourmet.

simonelo August 14 2007, 03:10:56 UTC

Just as long as Mommy hides the smut away better than my parents did with their novels-with-very-adult-themes they left in the basement library. (My mother got a call from the parent of one of my friends, wanting to know why I was reading "Coffee, Tea or Me?" and why I had lent it to her daughter. I think I was ten. Oops.)

Congratulations, by the way. :)

lablackey August 15 2007, 22:13:56 UTC

yeah, my dad went to college at night while I was growing up. Whoo boy was Joseph Wambaugh's "The choir Boys" an eye opener. It was years before I understood the term pull the train...I may have been better not knowing

facetiae August 14 2007, 13:04:58 UTC

wow. you, like, posted.

do you have a spam email account handy for such eventualities?

lablackey August 15 2007, 22:14:40 UTC

I sort of did. I'm going to see what my mail adviser/sysadmin (i.e. my neighbor) can do for me.

facetiae August 16 2007, 12:53:06 UTC

well, not that I'm gaga over gmail or anything (really) but it does have its uses. I have a gmail account I use only for giving to people I don't want to know my "real" email address(es). that is, any time I need an email address to create a login, or to give to casual acquaintances, etc. I check it periodically, and it's really easy to set up a filter so that one particular person's email gets forwarded on if you want it. so that's a thought.