{"id":1104,"date":"2011-03-11T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2016-05-11T07:49:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T11:49:44","slug":"what-is-wrong-with-regular-old-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"What Is Wrong With Regular Old Email?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I registered Booted Harleydude on several websites years ago. Some of them (Recon, for example) have internal message systems. That is, you can send another member of the site a message. Then it requires the person to log on to the site to read it.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, most of these sites do not notify the recipient that a message is waiting. The only exception is Blogger (host of this blog) and YouTube. Both of those systems are owned by Google, and both send a message via direct email to let me know that a comment is ready to be reviewed and approved, or a message is waiting.<\/p>\n

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I say very clearly on my Recon and other profiles that I do not check their sites every day. In fact, I probably only check them once a month. The reason why I registered BHD on those sites is to preserve my screen name. So contrary to what Recon says “the world’s largest hook-up site for men into fetish gear” — I did not join that site to “hook up” with anyone, but to share and see others in gear that I enjoy wearing and using on a regular basis (and to keep nefarious scoundrels from committing cyber-identity theft.)<\/p>\n

Well, anyway, lately I have received some messages, such as:<\/p>\n