RE: [cobalt-users] Get me off the ORBS list

["Rodolfo J. Paiz \(E-mail\)" <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Spam is annoying, but honestly, it's not that big a deal.
> >
>
> I agree completely, why does everybody seem to be allergic to
> their delete key?  I delete hundreds of email messages a day (yes,
> even when I am using a dial up account from out of town), and
> it's just not that big of a deal.

Again, JC, it's a question of scale and personal way of seeing things. You
don't mind deleting hundreds of messages a day; that's OK. Obviously (and I
don't mean any criticism!) your time is not an extremely valuable commodity
to you, so the time you spend on this is not "expensive." (I say this
because we all have only 24 hours per day... I just value each slice of it
more than you do... which isn't right or wrong, it's just personal.)

I *really* mind the time, since I only get about 4-5 hours of sleep a day,
and I want 8. But I won't take those other 3 hours from my family, and I
don't want to take them from useful work. Reducing the amount of time I
spend on things I find undesirable, unproductive, and displeasing is the
first and best source of time for me.

As for my network, anyone who's read my posts around here knows I run a
*very* small network. When you're on a T3, you couldn't care less about some
text traffic, and that's OK. But when your single biggest monthly expense is
a measly 256 Kbps of real bandwidth, spam is *EXPENSIVE*.

My dial-up account from out of town is usually out-of-country as well, and
costs me on average $7.00 per hour. Again, I own my own business; I'm 28
years old; I'm recently married; and every $7.00 I save is money into my
investments and business.

We each have our lives and ideas, and it's a grievous mistake to assume that
because something applies to you, that it applies to others as well.

--
Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>