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Mon Jul 24, 2006

I've Fallen Out of Love with Mail.app

Sad to say, but I've just about had it with my precious Macintosh Mail application. Oh yeah, you teased me back when you were new and we were courting. You got me to dump Eudora and long for the time when I could rush home at the end of the day and leave behind that harlot Entourage that I have to use at work, into the arms of my sweet Mail with your easy to manage folders and reliable rules, and best of all, that fabulous spam filter of yours. You were always so eager to please, and Lord knows, I appreciate that more than just about anything.

Buy now? I don't know anymore. It just seems like we've grown apart. Was it something I said, or did you just become bored with our relationship? I know, I wasn't happy when you had your makeover and the folders moved from the right over to the left, but I stuck with you even when I thought things didn't look right. "I'll get used to it" I said to myself. "She's just going through a phase."

But lately honey, I just don't feel the love anymore. Look at some of the subject lines that you've let through, subjects that you would have thoughtfully removed for me in the past:

Sensationall revoolution in medicine!
ReviewHome
777Lucky
upholding being prepared disaster
Fatblaster is an all natural herbal formulated thermogenic weight loss supplement.
Re: In forget go tubful flunkey fertilise
You have a mail from Svetlana, 27 y.o., Russia, dating
AccountID along with your request
Re: eenit VlcAGRA


Now back in the day, those would have gone directly into the Junk folder. But not now. Something has changed. Somehow you just don't seem to care anymore.

Maybe counseling could help. But more and more I'm beginning to think that our relationship has run its course and its time for us to part. As sad and painful as that will likely be, neither one of us seems to be happy with the way things are.

For now, I'm bouncing some messages and sending others to the Junk folder on my own, but there has to be give and take on both sides for any relationship to work out. And I'm just not sure how long we can go on like this.




Posted: Jul 24, 06 | 10:10 pm |

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