It Was Vacationing in Another State

I will never understand the Internet.

I thought I had my old email addresses forwarded to my new email addresses. But today I had to go through about 3700 emails, because the forwards were not working. Guess what? Somebody out there REALLY thinks I need a certain drug with a name that starts with “V.”

I found out I’ve been getting emails from a website called The Daily Caller. Well, my SERVER has been getting them. I haven’t. Ordinarily, when I get unwanted subscriptions with no “unsubscribe” link, I flag the messages as junk and hope the senders end up on blacklists until they learn how to act. But these emails come with the following message at the end:

“Want off this list? Email me — politely, please. 😉 You’re on this list because somebody thought you should be.”

I decided to send a polite email. Now I’m off the list.

I believe this is the site where Jim Treacher works. I’m also getting emails from some guy at IBD. I hope he didn’t send every one individually, because I didn’t receive them and didn’t read them. I am sure they were very nice, however.

One nice thing about bailing out of blog politics and the struggle to be noticed is that I don’t have to keep up with this stuff. I read political material when I feel like it, not when I think I should. When I got 3,000 visits a day, some people actually cared about sending me links, and usually, it was annoying, because I was a content provider, not a blogger who does nothing but link to other people’s stuff. I had more than enough original material. Generally, I didn’t need to be fed by strangers, and I did not read much of the spam, but they still tried. Now, nobody will bother me.

It would be nice to be connected to some big Christian blogs, but I’m pretty sure there aren’t any. Not enough to fool with. There are political bloggers who are Christians, but that’s not the same thing. It’s surprising.

I only read one blog now, other than my own. Moxie quit writing, and some of the content at other blogs I liked was suddenly too racy, and that left me with Knowledge is Power, Drudge, and Day by Day. If anything happens to Sondra, I will consider myself completely disconnected from the blogosphere.

I also found out my site at manlygrub.com was down. I don’t know what the host did, but I couldn’t check email, log into the site, find my Fantastico link, or change my passwords. Who knows how long it had been like this? Doesn’t matter. I wasn’t using it. I’m going to cancel the account. If you used the forum, thanks.

Wonder what else is going on that I don’t know about.