Early on, you bought
something on the internet. Your merchant was Huzzah! The Store for the
New Generation. Since that time, you have received 11,000 emails from
Hazzah!
And from Wal-mart,
Shopper TV, Sears, Nordstrom’s, Dollar General, Liquidation Channel, Ace
Hardware, Lowes, Home Despot and half a dozen others. Most of them are
irrelevant. But you like to keep your
“archive” relatively empty and your inbox lean and without needing a GPS to
work your way through it.
Yes, you can just delete
or unsubscribe. But on the teeeeny tiiiiny chance Huzzah! has something
that really interests you, you keep receiving their mail.
Here’s the solution.
Each time you get one of these, send it to spam or junk or whatever your
service calls things you don’t want.
Then, every few days,
you can check the list, keep the one or two you want and throw out the rest in
a satisfying sweep.
Your inbox is cleaner,
your archive is cleaner and your spam box is filling fast, but easily zapped.
(They’ll do it for you automatically every 30 days, but recently, spam
has counted in “space-used” for some services.)
Divide and ignore!
Would that there would
be a way to do that in real life. Oh, wait. There is. Give your brain
some folders and use them.
That’s just a theory, of
course. Like evolution and gravity. (When will the ignoramuses among us realize
that “theory” and “guess” or “suspicion” are not the same things?)
If you don’t like the
“folder” analogy, use some other word. Compartmentalize? Delegate? Put it in
the hands of a deity? Re-channel?
In any case… practice!
SHRAPNEL:
--We could start world
war III pretty easily tomorrow. The “Allies” would be the United States, the
Axis would be everyone else. We’re not given to such clarity. But we may
be given to such horror, since -- as everyone knows -- there is no difference
between fantasy and reality.”
--That would all make
America great again. It would be a boon to arms dealers, especially those
who lose business because they’d no longer be allowed to sell to members of the
Axis. Saudi Arabia, for example, would have to buy its warplanes, missiles and such
from Russia or China.
--Long Island’s 123
school districts voted on school budgets yesterday. Most passed. But
voters rejected calls for armed guards in districts that proposed hiring them.
(Note: 123 is an actual
figure for the number of school districts in Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Each votes on budgets every year.)
I’m Wes Richards. My
opinions are my own but you’re welcome to them. ®
Comments? Send them to wesrichards@gmail.com
© WJR 2019
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