Looking through emails from 2011 to early 2012 (I was deleting some files for space)
A company that prior to it's acquisition by Backcountry (around the same time that Amazon bought Woot.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_m ... _by_Amazon which had a similar approach to marketing,) they used to send out emails with these kind of humorous anecdotes and random thoughts. Though the company SteepandCheep.com is still around, none of the hyperlinks in the emails from 2012 go anywhere (though evidently a lot of the images in emails are tied to image servers, so it's not unexpected that they go completely blank, since most of the clicks in emails are used for tracking marketing purposes.) It also reminds me of how many companies completely lose their "soul" once acquired by bigger businesses, just like Northern Brewer (which also had a quirkier side to it and seemed to be aimed at enthusiasts more.)
The target audience seem to be mostly young adults into sports and an alternative lifestyle, though the writer seems to have a fondness for cycling bikes (and once I got around to the earlier writings I felt I could relate to their thinking in many ways.)
Initially the files totaled around 20 pages. . . and that's what I put in spoilers, though it's now 83 pages long. . . But worth it to reflect on what someone was thinking around that time.
I just put it all into a PDF:
Author is unknown.
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So I ended up mass deleting a lot of emails (a quarter of a million unread (mostly random stuff like ancient history archeology, but moreso stuff I should have just unsubscribed earlier) after Yahoo mail went from 1TB storage to 20 GB unless you upgraded (whether this was a calculated move for those who were prone to ignore emails until they piled up, and then pull the rug out to get people to rather pay to not bother with it, I have to wonder,) went down to about 200,000, many of which I'm not sure how to proceed with deleting since I don't know the magic word to find the results of what I feel safe mass deleting. I kind of just needed to clear things up even if I would prefer it if yahoo mail had the option to prevent stuff from showing up on the email search for deletion; you ultimately have to either "select all" and can't unselect certain email to not delete, as the software script is too cumbersome when it shows up with 2000-20,000 emails to delete and placing the emails in folders or archive don't protect it. Alternatively I could spam bomb my other email accounts with stuff I wouldn't mind keeping, but that kind of defeats the purpose.
The few times it might be better to use the app (though I also refused to use the updated Yahoo mail webpage online, so maybe it corrected the antiquated version of the email which seems to lag like crazy?) It's as if the older format of the website has to interpret for a newer version that was rolled out, and somehow glitches all the time (which might explain why Kroger's website crashed but also has issues when interfacing with the app? )