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It's not Monday. Why does it feel like Monday?
Tuesday, July 24, 2007Gmail got back to me and told me they couldn't confirm the account was mine, and have disabled it for my protection. Baloney. Anyone ever heard of a little thing called an ip address? Mine at work and home are static. Why not compare the records of who logs into the gmail account over the past two, three weeks with the ip address of the person who emails them kindly, pleading letters? Case closed. I just think they are understaffed, over worked, and therefore don't care. Or don't care, period. (But I am trying to be nice. After all, it's all about the theory i live my life by, the theory of "we all just want to go home". That's it. We get up, we go to work, where, even if we love our job, we don't maybe really want to HAVE to be at, and we spend our days getting our job done so we can go home. Anyone who interrupts this process by making our lives harder, whether through adding more work or just not being nice, becomes sort of an enemy. They disrupt the flow and make the day seem longer, and, in a way, keep us from our goal of going home. That's why I am, in general, a calm person. Understanding that it's not really personal makes like easier to deal with.) I have decided to give them until Wednesday to answer my latest pleas, and if they don't, I will write a full, reasoned report about the whole thing, including whatever emails i have, and post it here, and wherever else i can. It's not because I'm a vindictive critter and want to "get" the man, it's because this is wrong. It's because anyone of my other friends who use gmail might get similarly hurt. I am going to change back to my previous address, and use my emails that came with my website. So, Gabby will ride again...just as an apenandfire girl. I was seriously considering keeping my own account. After all, Gmail really is a wonderful service...but I feel like I can't, because of the way they've treated me. I can't stand the idea of continuing to support them. If you are using Gmail, I would suggest backing up your Gmail, or exporting your contacts to another program. You can back it up by using a mail client like thunderbird, but it'll take up a gig of space, so that might not be so hot. Though you could always save the emails to a cd or dvd, delete them, delete everything so you don't keep downloading it... At work, I get hundreds of emails from greeting card places. They are a scam, if you click on the link, they download a virus that logs your keystrokes for passwords. I wonder if i accidentally clicked on one? I mean, I'm smarter than that, i knew right away they were fakes...even though they seem to come from places like Blue Mountain and Hallmark. The giveaway, of course, was that it said "You have received a greeting card from a Worshipper"....a worshipper? Me? Never and i hope not. I wonder if I did it, when I was busy, by accident or something. The spammer got my ebay account info somewhere.... But everything else seems fine. Still, it's scary. I'm going to be a bit gun shy for awhile. Labels: gmail Permalink Cindy scribed this at 9:40 PM 0 comments |