Good news, good news, come to me where I sleep
Turn, turn, turn again
That our nation may move out of trouble deep
Turn, turn to the wave and the wind.
(With apologies to Mr. Zimmerman)
Lila, I've never had any difficulty sorting out the real stuff, so far (may this remain true, may this remain true, may this remain true). Anything that isn't real doesn't have my correct eBay user name, or anything that identifies my PayPal address; and mousing over any internal address identifies it as a spoof when the address is different from what it claims to be.
The only one I've ever responded to was a "You've won this particular Masonic grant". With the whole "Raiders of the Lost Basement" story, there's a slightly measurable chance that that one was true. No response yet, a week later. If it does come true, folks here will hear very quickly!
The ones that aren't caught by ATT's really unreliable spam filter (which takes out real companies without asking, while allowing "virgilio.it" to get into the "filtered" bin, and occasionally the unfiltered) are pretty obvious. Seconds per day. I object to them. I wish them painful rot of body parts I won't mention here. And they're not even mosquitos. They're midges. Seconds per day of discomfort, not even pain.
This part of living in a capitalist economy is "in the noise". Yeah, it's a pain. So is keeping records for the IRS.
And every so often, I hear from someone I hadn't thought of for years, and that makes the obvious, evil, filterable spam just a bit more tolerable.
I can't remember the last time that I wasn't actually reading close to ten books at a time (with all the books that I set aside to get back to sometime realsoonnow)....
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