(At left: World’s most secure mailbox. I showed it to you because I care about your safety. You may want to get one for yourself.)
Finally, I am starting to consolidate my email accounts. I had one email address that I would use for registering for websites. This way, I would know if I was getting junk mail from those particular sites. I had another email address that I would give out to people that actually knew me. That email address hardly gets any mail, because philosophically, I only started getting to know myself recently, so how could other people really know me? Then, as usual, there was the email address I had so no one else would register for that name because I really liked it. Inevitably, I completely forgot the passwords to two of them as I use them so infrequently. I recall setting the passwords to things that weren’t my usual passwords. That’s pretty swift if I was ever going to be interrogated by the KGB or some other partially disassembled organization. They wouldn’t be able to get any of my weather alerts, for sure.
Privacy Harbor is a new email provider that is supposed to be the be all and end all, as it eliminates spam and viruses so that your inbox is a very safe, tranquil and serene environment. What if I like to read pleas for financial help from Nigeria, being the last known heir of Lady Diana, as I am? Then I suppose I am out of luck. The majority of people, when polled rather not read such tripe.
With other email systems, there is a way to “white list” and “black list” different email address so it knows who is the bad guy, and who is the good guy. That is way too complicated as most scam artist email writers change addresses like my teenage brother changed socks. Okay, that was a bad anology and the exact opposite of the picture that I was trying to paint.
I think I am going to give it a whirl. The only problem is that my relatives are not up on all this technology and it might take a few years for them to realize that I have a new email address, even though I told them about it. If I am not careful, one of them could try to send a cake, all wrapped up in individual plastic wrapped pieces to my new address. I am sure the guys and gals at my internet service provider would intercept it for me and determine whether it was safe or not. I would get a .jpg or a .gif in my mail box of just the crumbs that were left over.
Hey you, in cubicle number two at Privacy Harbor: Consider yourself on notice!
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