Many of us in the computer industry have parents or grandparents who have gotten their first computers after retirement, and who enjoy exchanging email with their friends. For me, I think it will be just the reverse — I'm looking forward to old age and "retirement" so I can get rid of email. I currently receive a steady barrage of about one email every three minutes. That's about 20 an hour, and about 480 per day. All but a handful (well under 1%) are spam and scams of various sorts. About 11:00 AM on Thursday morning Deirdre and I headed out to my mother's house in Jersey, and then to my brother's house for Thanksgiving dinner. We stayed overnight there, and the following day we drove up to visit Deirdre's mother and sister in Utica. We stayed overnight in Utica and got back to NYC about 5:00 PM today . We were gone about 54 hours. I knew before booting up that I'd be dealing with over 1,000 junk emails. Among those thousand emails were a half dozen important ones, including one Read More...