February 8, 2002

• Today I got an interesting spam emails. It’s one of those ‘there must have been some kind of mix-up’ spams.
  
  It says something like, “Your tech article is due for the site launch! How am I supposed to give our users information if you keep dragging your heels?” Of course the email is from someone@sometechmagsite.com, and their signature just happens to contain a clickable link to the site. Hey, I wonder what this is all about! I better go check! Heh.
  
  The amusing part is, however, that it’s not just one spam. You get ‘treated’ to a whole argument between this alleged editor and some alleged content author, complete with catty comments by a third person, ostensibly an author who got their article in on time. All told, about five emails.
  
  But it gets better (or worse, depending on how you look at it). Now there are hapless naive people responding, saying stuff like, ‘I think there’s been some kind of mix-up. I shouldn’t be on your distribution list.’ About four of those so far. I wonder how many will filter into my in-box. The spammers can’t lose, because they get both exposure and verification of which emails in their database are valid.
  
  Fuckers.

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