Information Overload


	Information Overload

happydog

5-22-2008 6:03 PM

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email marketing, spam, unsubscribe, hamster, treadmill

happydog says:

I've been like a hamster on a treadmill for quite awhile now.

I'm sure you are as well.

With all the email we receive -- people pitching us products... sharing the secrets of the universe... how to get rich by the time we go to bed -- and the product launches -- getting the same email from 30 or 40 people day after day.

It has to end.

So I ended it.

I put to high a price on my time to read email after email -- that have no true value to me, just so these folks can pitch me their latest and greatest whiz banger.

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