Spam, spam, spam...
Sep. 15th, 2005 08:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dimity_blueI have a friend.
Hang on...let me explain that as I don't want you to think I have just the one who I keep in a box under my bed or anything.
I don't have any friends under my bed in boxes (or any other type of container), but I do have a friend who is addicted to spam.
Whatever piece of junk is in her inbox, ends up in mine. Including all those lovely "pass this on NOW or die a hideous death within 24 hours" emails. Monty Python could have done a sketch on emails if emails had been around at the time.
Today she sent me one of those "forward this and the Make a Wish Foundation will donate 7 cents every time this message is sent on" emails. Now tell me, how on earth would the Make a Wish Foundation know when the email is sent on and to how many people it's been sent? And why, if they wanted to donate money to help the person in the email, would they do it in such a stupid manner?
Btw, the person in the email says that if I don't send this on to everyone on my list, I have a cold heart.
Well, mine must be icy, because I deleted the email.
Hang on...let me explain that as I don't want you to think I have just the one who I keep in a box under my bed or anything.
I don't have any friends under my bed in boxes (or any other type of container), but I do have a friend who is addicted to spam.
Whatever piece of junk is in her inbox, ends up in mine. Including all those lovely "pass this on NOW or die a hideous death within 24 hours" emails. Monty Python could have done a sketch on emails if emails had been around at the time.
Today she sent me one of those "forward this and the Make a Wish Foundation will donate 7 cents every time this message is sent on" emails. Now tell me, how on earth would the Make a Wish Foundation know when the email is sent on and to how many people it's been sent? And why, if they wanted to donate money to help the person in the email, would they do it in such a stupid manner?
Btw, the person in the email says that if I don't send this on to everyone on my list, I have a cold heart.
Well, mine must be icy, because I deleted the email.
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Date: 2005-09-20 12:24 pm (UTC)I had a similar problem with a friend and solved it by talking her into making two different addressbooks. One she can safely send everything she wants to forward (since the people on it haven't complained yet) and the other for people who *do* complain. *g*
If she gets a "send this to everyone in your addressbook or..." now, she'll forward it to each and everyone on the first addressbook. *g* Hey, the spam-messages talk about "book", not "books". *g*
PatK
:-)