Ah, go ahead and do it. Great way to start your events.

I'll have to try it at the next Nerd Dinner. "Hey, Portland Nerds! Don't be such assholes! By the way, I'm moving to Florida!"

Yeah.

:)

Um, there's also the question of why you would answer to "Jody", but then again that's probably one of those pet name things that is none of my business.

I *still* think that if the highways were lined with gibbets (as an example to others) displaying the bodies of people who had been stupid and pathetic enough to avail themselves of the services offered by spammers, the problem would go away in no time (what's the phrase... "Draining the swamp"?). I'm personally opposed to capital punishment, but if someone replies to that crap I think their species is seriously called into question, so think of it as pest control. And in that light, reducing the number of farting moronic can't-prove-they're-even-hominids (and you just *know* what they drive) is a positive step toward ameliorating global warming.

I'm feeling very tolerant and benevolent today.

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I think Mark Miller (of Monday's fame) probably gets this kind of e-mail, but it's not from spammers.

I can particularly appreciate this blog post, because I wrote a similar anti-spam post to my blog just a couple days ago. Spammers clearly don't hire the top marketing firms for their material.

Jacob: -otherwise it would be "Read this exclusive report to find out why 9 out of 10 housewives prefer Viagra". Possibly accompanied by an image of a tall woman in glasses wearing a spotless labcoat, frowning and holding a clipboard.

I've been pondering this one for all of 30 seconds, and I've come to the conclusion that with a few honourable exceptions most advertising really *is* just eyeballspam/earholespam.
At least vocal conversations and letters from people I actually want to talk to are not accompanied by advertising, which is nice.

Thought: just as the apparent absence of evidence of time-travellers suggests that time-travel may be impossible, the absence of demonic spam suggests that it is not, in fact, possible to reliably summon demons and bind them to one's evil will (damn). Otherwise demonologists would inevitably long ago have been enlisted in the service of marketing, and we would be plagued by imps popping out of the ether to persuade us of the need for various anatomical enhancements or some idiocy involving US government bonds.

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Somethign that bothers me from a business angle with spam is that people actually think that if you trick a person into opening and reading your email/letter/ad that they are going all happy and congenial for it.

Personally whenever I find out I've just been tricked by a spammer/marketer I feel really pissed at them... and trash it regardless of what it is.

*muttering* Useless, festering-belly-button-cruft lickers who couldn't get a better job...