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I know it’s an overworked subject but I just can’t stay quiet. The fact that we all hate spam is a well known fact. What I don’t understand is why so many people still send it out… and with all the manipulation of the subject so it gets past spam filters, don’t the know that that are having to do that BECAUSE WE DON’T WANT THEIR EMAILS? Don’t they realize that if we met them we would want to throw eggs at them? I suspect that they have signed up for some get-rich-quick scam where they buy email addresses that are probably sold as opt-in addresses.

A case in point: I started getting spam with variations of pharmacy in the subject. Such as PHstxMACY. So I set my rules to delete anything with MACY. Then, either they can tell or they just assume we’ll do that, they switched to PHxevMzyACY. So I added ACY to my rules. Now they’ve changed it again and I’ve set my rules to also delete all subjects with PH. It makes me crazy.

And all the emails that sound like a friend writing to you. And I get dozens, all at once, of the same thing from all kinds of different email addresses so someone has sold a bunch of people a new scam and I’m on the list. I can’t imagine anyone actually getting someone to actually click on their links. Again, don’t all these people know that we hate them, that it is not good to have that much bad energy directed toward them, and that they are the ones we are talking about when we all scream, “We hate spam and spammers.” It’s like those guys with the comb-overs. Don’t they realize all those jokes are about them?

So there, I’ve vented. It is such a waste of time to have to go through all those emails just in case there is one that I need to respond to. I just went through 48 and not one of them was anything but spam. Crazy-making. I don’t have time for all that, but I don’t know what else to do.

Where are the eggs? I need to throw something.

Not feeling too loving right now (grrrr!),
Kara