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I couldn’t sleep, so was going through my junk folder for false positives – 34.87 megabytes of SPAM since one week ago Friday. Just thinking about that multiplied by everyone on the Internet scares the hell out of me when I think about bandwidth. So I don’t. What I do think about though, is this – and tell me if I’m odd… SPAM that’s spelled incorrectly or has grammatical errors bothers me more than SPAM that doesn’t. For instance: "She wants a better sex? All you need’s here." It hurt me to type that ."a better sex" is incorrect. All you need IS here. You can’t conjoin the words "needs" and "is"  with an apostrophe. Another one that drives me [...]

Got this from someone. I don’t know him. I don’t think I know him, anyway. It was an email announcing that he’s speaking at some conference. It ended with this: This message is sent to you because you are a Friend, Contact or Client of Raj Goel, CISSP 917-685-7731 / raj@brainlink.com and subscribed to the mailing list <RajGoelContacts@brainlink.com>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <RajGoelContacts-off@brainlink.com> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <RajGoelContacts-digest@brainlink.com> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <RajGoelContacts-index@brainlink.com> Send administrative queries to RajGoelContacts-request@brainlink.com Is it just me, or is that tacky?

Are you addicted to email? PC World reports that enough people are that they’re responding while driving, in church, and ahem… while on the toilet. "Dear Mike – Just thought I’d squeeze off this one email to you…" Are You Addicted to Email Ew.

So I was quickly skimming my junk email box before dumping it, in case buried between the "We have $20,000,000 in Nigeria for you" and the "You too can become a secret shopper" emails was something of importance, and I came across this email, about how I should buy a domain name and "get on line." OK. But it had a hot girl in the image. Check it out: So then I started thinking – how many emails have photos of people in them? Then I asked myself the question – where do these people come from? How do the images wind up in Spam? I went to graduate school for photography, if you can believe it. I know that [...]