Spam, spam, spam, egg, chips & spam
Spam - a portmanteau of 'spiced ham' - was, along with corned beef, part of the lard-controlled diet of your average kid in 70s England. Why is it now the name for uninvited junk email?
This week, bollocks.com.au has received a ridiculous amount of spam. It wouldn't be so bad if these losers with nothing better to do than send this crap out could think of a subject line that would even remotely interest the average human, and therefore make them decide to open it.
Here are some of the names of this week's collection: Goodiest proposal / I wish you good day! / I want to find friend! / I hope, you will read it! / I will glad to know you! / Go left after the next right (spam SatNav?) And then there's the endless spam promising to cure your lack of ... um ... stiffness: Virility paradise is here / Having issues with your manhood? / Keep her up all night! (an email about coffee?) / She likes getting slap on the ass (ooh, classy). And what about some of the senders' names? I will glad to know you! was sent by Courtney Dick ... as if I'm gonna open that! Actually I did, but that's not the point. I've heard that if you open spam emails, the sender somehow becomes aware that your email address is 'live'. Bollocks.
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SPAM sucks the big one and the pond life that sends it ought to be taken out back and shot. Personally I use clearmymail to filter my spam out, you pay for it but it works, 82% of my mail is spam but none of it ever gets anywhere my inbox, go here for a free trial, it does what it says on the tin.
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Bollocks to spam.
As if portmanteau is a real word. Bollocks to you Frederick Panshiner.
I've heard that if you open spam emails, the sender somehow becomes aware that your email address is 'live'. Bollocks.
If they're html/rtf emails, they can. Put a 1 pixel picture on the email, it does a get from a remote website, and passes it a number the spammer generated when it sent you the mail. A quick lookup, and voila! (I'm a programmer, not a spammer, BTW)
There's a setting on email clients to only render pictures from trusted addresses, which helps somewhat. Avoid outlook/outlook express. You can get pwnd so easily with that.
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