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I've posted about e-mail annoyances before, here and here. Over the past year I've had friends add to the PITA aspect of e-mail by continually ratting my address out to facebook. All my friends know I hate facebook and myspace, yet they continue to be clicking monkeys on the "invite" button, or whatever it is. Why can't someone just e-mail me directly with the information. I guess that might require putting a few words together and composing something, *far* too much trouble, so they hand me over to the corporate soul stealers.

The bad thing is that facebook never forgets an address. They will e-mail you forever reminding you that you have not responded to the invitation. You can click a link to unsubscribe, but why should I have to do that for unsolicited facebook SPAM? Even if one does unsubscribe, the corporation will switch you back to "subscribed" as soon as the next monkey clicks the box or they feel you've had a little time to change you mind.

Most people have had the ability to seriously get online for over a decade now, yet this month's volley of STUPID-AS-HELL e-mail shows that some things never change. Recently I've been getting lots of e-mail with .pps (Power Point) files of up to several megabytes attached. To take the cake, the e-mails usually have dozens, sometimes hundreds of addresses in the "TO:" field, including mine. This exposes my e-mail address to people I don't know, which increases spam, usually from infected Windows machines, and often creates follow-up bulk e-mailing from those who have some sort of addiction to e-mail broadcasting.

I usually give my e-mail address to someone in the hope of one-on-one personal communication, but then the "I am a radio station" transmitting starts.

When I am at home jacked into the high-speed cable, these heavy e-mails are but a minor annoyance, but when I'm on weak hotel wifi while traveling, sometimes these e-mails stall my e-mail from flowing in, or sometimes even make the connection drop entirely. I have a feeling that many people don't even realize that e-mails *have* a size, much less that large ones can cause problems. Many come from co-workers, *during work hours*. As lazy as I sometimes am at work, when I'm at work, I'm fully at work, not doing this stuff.

The PowerPoint files are usually cutesy stuff, like flowers, kittens, crosses, anime, hearts, love poetry, etc. SHEESH!

I've long since given up trying to get it to stop, but I can at least whine like a baby about it here on my blog.

I've whined about this type thing before. Oh, the net madness!

Text: 10,000 lines of text

Images: 74 large pics attached. Things like a cat riding a motorcycle, or cute little hearts and flowers. Sheesh!

My private e-mail address, GONE!: 200 e-mail addresses, half of them corporate. C'mon people, when at work, BE at work, not always forwarding this shit around. If I were the boss, I'd fire your ass!

Size: Sometimes the e-mail is 5 megs or more. Some people don't even know files and e-mail have a size. Why is Outlook usually involved in this?

Message: Something stupid, like "if you love me, forward this to 5 of your friends now or I'll cry". Just once I'd like to see a *serious* subject line, like: "A bitch really getting the knife" -Rauli Lauhanen