"Where is My Spam"

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Boy, I must be really new to the ...
Everyone ... about all the canned meat they're getting and ...
getting fed over here.I do get some, but I'm sure not getting fat on it. Irecei Boy, I must be really new to the Internet! Everyone keepstalking about all the canned meat they're getting and I'mhardly getting fed over here.I do get some, but I'm sure not getting fat on it.
Ireceive a couple of hundred or so emails a day so I'm notsurprised that I get a few offers for credit cards I don'tneed and junk I'm not going to buy.Although I probably average only a dozen or so letters a dayin the big metal box at the end of the drive,some days morethat half of that mail is junkmail.While I find basically none of this junkmail useful to me,the electronic spam is much easier to deal with. I'mbrand new to email and I still know at least three ways tohit delete! And, if need be, I can let my ISP gobble it up.Since I live in the country and I no longer have to pay thegarbage man to haul away the paper junkmail, I don't evenresent that as I once did.
In fact, I hear that I have aneighbor who actually solicits the stuff as he heats hishouse with it. An idea, I suppose?I can almost hear you saying "Wait a minute! You said youget hundreds of emails a day." Yes, indeed I do.
I wouldsay that 96% of them are from ezines that I've subcribed to,offers I asked for more information about or email courses Iwanted.In my 3 months on the Internet, I've subscribed to over 400ezines. Am I nuts, as an ezine editor friend of mineimplied? No, I'm out here to get information.
The only wayto do that is to go to where the source is. Many ezines arewonderful sources of a wide variety of information.Unfortunately, I've found that not all ezines areentertaining or informative.
Do I read them all?Yes, I do, to a point. I use an automatic 'shelving' systemin Outlook Express for my ezines.I have a folder named 'Ezines' and inside that I have manysubfolders.When I read my first issue of an ezine, if I am instantlytotally impressed, I set up a subfolder for that ezine anda message rule that puts every issue in that folder.
Igenerally eagerly read them as soon as I see I have unopenedmail in that folder. If I find later that I am not enjoyingthat ezine as much, I move the whole folder to anothercatagory or I unsubscribe and delete the folder.I also have a subfolder called 'Checking Out'.
If I am nottotally enamored with the ezine, it goes into a subfolder inthat file. I have these labeled: 'Daily's", 'Weekly's' and'Monthly's.
I add the from address to the appropriatemessage rule and those ezines go to their folders.I read the 'Checking Out' ezines as time allows. Very often,by the second or third issue, the ezine has graduated it itsown folder.
I sort by name and read the 'Daily's' moreoften that the others but I do at least scan them all.If I have received 5 or 6 issues of an ezine and it stillremains in my just looking folder, I am not very interestedin that ezine. I unsubscribe.
Ezine editors might want tonote that, when they send me 4 or more 'solos' in a day, Iam probably only seeing one real issue of their ezine whenI'm trying to decide if I want to remain subscribed.I have to admit that I've recently added a new subfoldercalled 'Free Ad Subs'. Yep, you guessed it, stuff I don'tread unless have extra time or I need an ad code.
I willstay subscribed though until I figure out a better way tomarket.I don't know, maybe I'm just too new out here to know whatcanned meat is.If you'd like some helpful hints on how to manage 400+ezines in your mailbox, send for my free helpful article"Manage Your E-mail" mailto:[email protected]. Source: Free Articles from ArticlesFactory.com .