Global Spam

ziggy on 2002-06-05T17:06:44

Sometimes you just have to open up a piece of spam and laugh.

Last week, I got a spam in French that very politely tried to tell me how to spam people by keyword and country. (Apparently, they need to do a little more work on finding francophones. Or perhaps they really do have a master database of everyone who ever studied French...)

The Asian messages are just annoying, mostly because mutt doesn't render them as anything iteresting (and that nagging illiteracy issue; one day I promise I will learn Thai, Chinese, Korean and/or Hindi).

Today, I got an urgent piece of spam from liquidator trying to sell desks. I might have been interested if (1) I was in the market for a desk, and (2) if I lived closer to Watford, Herts, England (WD28 8HL). I probably won't go. Shipping a desk 5000 miles over water will eat up any savings form the liquidation sale...

Note to self: start posting interesting spam on the web, especially the ones in Klingon, Esperanto or Sumerian