The last couple of days my in basket has been extremely light. One reason is I haven’t been getting any mail in the Masters Miata account. Way back in April Yahoo cut off POP3 access to your email. You had to log on and use the web based mail program (so they could subject you to several ads just to read one email message.) A couple of clever folks figured out a way around this (you just knew somebody would.) YahooPops worked fine up until a little while ago, then Yahoo changed their layout. This made the program hang and when it didn’t hang, the mail just wouldn’t come in via Outlook Express. Turns out I just needed to get the updated version of YahooPops and change a setting. Mail again.
Another reason is BellSouth got their spam buster, Mail Guard, online and running. When they announced it a month or so back, my first instinct was to turn it off, I wanted to choose what I saw not some software filter. Forgot all about it until I thought today that maybe that is why my mail has been light. Sure enough it has been running for the last 5 days and had snared 64 messages in it’s filter. I waded through looking at the subjects and you know, they were all junk! I guess I’ll leave it on and if it works 100% for the next 2 or 3 weeks I ‘ll just leave it and forget it.