[Rhodes22-list] STOP THE MADNESS!

[Slim]

Eureka!  I just figured out how to access my phone email on the web so I can
deal with it as easily as I deal with my regularly-scheduled spam at my main
address.   I just deleted 35 spam emails with a click of the mouse on my
laptop.  Yay!

Technology really is won'erful.

Slim

On 8/21/06 1:48 PM, "Michael D. Weisner" <mweisner at ebsmed.com> wrote:

> To paraphrase a famous philosopher: "Technology: Ain't it won'erful!"
> 
> Mike
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Slim" <salm at mn.rr.com>
> To: "Rhodes22-list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 2:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] STOP THE MADNESS!
> 
> 
>> Mike,
>> 
>> Oh, great!  It wouldn't be so bad were it not so tedious to deal with.  My
>> phone rings with a message so I click on it and wait and wait for each
> page
>> to boot up.  First it takes me to the main menu then the inbox then the
>> first message then the body of the message then I select delete then "are
>> you sure?" with each page taking 20-30 seconds to load.  It takes nearly 5
>> minute just to delete one message!  And during this process, I will
>> invariably be "timed out" and have to log back in.
>> 
>> The internet service from Sprint is called "Sprint Vision" and allows for
>> email, picture transfers, text messaging,  and so on but all I ever use it
>> for is a weather program called "MyCast" which shows me weather radar and
>> forecasts that come in useful out on the boat.  Maybe it's not worth it.
>> 
>> Slim
>> 
>> On 8/21/06 12:59 PM, "Michael D. Weisner" <mweisner at ebsmed.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Slim,
>>> 
>>> The really unfortunate part of all this is that even when unsubscribed,
> the
>>> email address will have been added to the publicly available info, since
> the
>>> R22 messages are scanned by Google regularly.  You should start getting
>>> porn, stock and Nigerian scam spam on your cell phone email in about 2
>>> weeks!
>>> 
>>> Mike
>>> s/v Shanghai'd Summer
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Herb Parsons" <hparsons at parsonsys.com>
>>> To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>>> Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 1:34 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] STOP THE MADNESS!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I'm still laughing. Made me want to go back and dig out the original so
> I
>>> could post it, and forward it to all my friends (sorry, I have this
> thing
>>> about having fun when technology doesn't work right). Unfortunately, I
>>> usually delete messages right after I read them.
>>> 
>>> Can you post another one from your phone, so I can play too?
>>> 
>>> Herb Parsons
>>> 
>>> S/V O'Jure
>>> 1976 O'Day 25
>>> Lake Grapevine, N TX
>>> 
>>> S/V Reve de Papa
>>> 1971 Coronado 35
>>> Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana Coast
>>> 
>>>>>> salm at mn.rr.com 8/20/2006 2:58:30 am >>>
>>> Dear Rummy, Robert, Hank, Mark, Mike, et al,
>>> 
>>> Thank you all very much for the input on my CB cleat fix--but there's a
>>> problem.  When I first posted my message about it, I sent a picture I
> took
>>> with my phone camera.  I hope you all looked at the picture because I
> went
>>> to great lengths to figure out how to post a picture from my phone!
> Well,
>>> now every reply to this thread makes my phone ring!!!  And my service is
>>> relentless:  "You have an important message from Sprint Picture Mail"
> and if
>>> I don't respond, it keeps ringing me. Worse, I can't figure out how to
> stop
>>> it.
>>> 
>>> I hear Napoleon Dynamite in my head saying, "Idiot!"
>>> 
>>> Feel free to continue posting messages at will concerning this very
>>> important topic but please stop replying to the original thread.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Slim
>>> 
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