Welcome to Smuggle Me

My email box had been doing so good at not getting spam. I was so proud to say that I had a hotmail email address and I was able to avoid spam. Well, it’s actually still true for my hotmail email address. It’s not true for the domain email addresses that I have forwarded to my hotmail.

The crazy thing is that lately there has been a major trend in spam being sent as images. That really sucks because it is hard to filter it out. In fact, because of this new type of spam, companies have created anti image spam filters. It’s not a perfect science, but it sure helps.

In my previous job I implemented Proofpoint’s spam filter and absolutely fell in love with their product. It is probably one of the best decisions I ever made on the job. It did an amazing job filtering, it could be configured like crazy and had absolutely amazing reports. Funny enough, the CIO of the company had the highest amount of Spam sent to his address for the entire University.

Now, I just wish that Hotmail would buy one of these anti spam companies so my personal account can benefit from these same enterprise class spam filters.

A few days ago when I was trolling the internet I ran across an article that’s called “20 Days without a PC - No e-mail, no word processor, no Google…no problem? Our reporter goes cold turkey and lives to tell the tale.”

I think the article is a little old, but it was an enlightening experience to read. I’m not sure I could do it, nor would I want to do it. The idea of sending a letter is just painful to me. Using an actual map as opposed to Google is just a waste of time. I love technology. I’m a technology addict which is great, because technology is my job.

However, it was interesting to see how he kind of liked not being connected. I’m sure I could do it and have done it at times. Life will go on without the internet. Just don’t ask me to prove it.