And I learned it the hard way. I am on dial-up. For those of you too young to remember dial-up, google it.

Before I check my email through Outlook, I go to my server's website and check my incoming messages by webmail. If somebody is sending me 7MB worth of "FW: Cute Doggie Pictures!" or "If you love our country forward this to 17 people in 5 minutes", I can delete the sucker before it clogs up my email.

I say the hard way, because my daughter was waiting for me to run to the computer and email her something, but when I opened Outlook, I had to wait TWENTY MINUTES while I received a stupid forward before my message to her would go out.

This doesn't help if I've already got Outlook open. I guess I could change some settings, or maybe go throw rocks through the windows of people that send me that stuff (they mean well). But it sure is frustrating. Probably one of you young whippersnappers will tell me there is an easier way around this....?