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You may notice that our banner includes a link that asks you to Contact? Every day we receive several emails from people we don’t know, but feel gracious enough to tell us of money making opportunities.

How about Texhoma Energy? "…a trade mark new doorway into the Red Hot energy sector." Only 8 cents a share and ready to "burst" on Tuesday (10-17-06), sending it "off the charts." Of course our concern is that it will be completely off the charts and we would have broken our piggy bank for nothing.

We automatically delete the ads written in Chinese, though that’s not as easy as it sounds because our software always wants to know if we’d like to install a plugin that would allow us to read the Chinese characters. Not that it would matter.

There’s also a singular email we receive every week from NPR. That might sound impressive but the company has nothing to do with public broadcasting, though their business model uses a considerable portion of the available bandwidth to send email solicitations.

"With 157,800,000+ Permission-Based Opt-In Emails at Our Access From Over 185 Countries & Territories (From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe) and 600+ Targeted Interest Categories to Choose From, We Can Help You. Contact Us For a Quote Today!"

Canadian Drugstore must be running specials because I get 3-6 a day. No doubt they're cheaper than WalMart but I don't want to wait a week for a bottle of cough syrup. Then there's the "enhancement" drugs that every man longs for - though I can't provide a testimonial. No doubt next week there be something else in my Inbox that will offer to make me younger, stronger and more attractive to the opposite sex. If only I'd sign up for one those "dating" sites I might just need what they are selling. Sometimes I wonder how these people stay in business, if that's what you want to call it.

Our experience with permission based opt-in email is that you foolishly sign up thinking that website X will send you a newsletter, and in the small print you also agree to receive emails from "affiliates" who naturally buy your address along with millions of others in a package deal. Part of that package includes bulk email software which your internet service provider will surely object to if they don’t already prohibit it in your service agreement.

This brings to mind the august senator from Alaska who so eloquently explained that the internet is composed of big pipes. Following his analogy we’d like to suggest that a good part of the problem is in fact companies like NPR who by proxy flood the inboxes of millions of people several times a day with ads they probably delete if their software doesn’t do it for them.

This stuff is like the gunk our plumber fished our of our drains last spring. Now that it’s been scraped out the pipes run clean, so it only stands to reason that the same would apply to Senator Steven’s internet. Not to mix metaphors, but if you decide to mention this email problem to the senator you might tell him it’s like a man in need of a colonoscopy.

Surely he can relate to that.

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