note to self

Reply To: torethhug@yahoo.co.uk
From: Lady Toreth Hughes
52 Oxford Street, England.
Here writes Lady Toreth Hughes, suffering from cancerous ailment. I am married
to Sir Richard Hughes an nglishman who is dead. My husband was into private
practice all his life before his death. Our life together as man and wife
lasted for three decades without child. My husband died after [...]

From: tomcole2020@oi.com.br
Subject: Invitation to act as Next-of-Kin
Date: 1 October 2000 09:15:28 BDT
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Reply-To: tomcole2020@bigmir.net
From the Desk: Barrister. Thomas Cole.
Thomas Cole & partners.
25 Wilson Road
Olodi Apapa
Lagos- Nigeria.
Private / Highly Confidential
Subject [...]

During the last seven days I’ve noticed a strange new form of comment spam. No longer advertising poker sites or pr0n. Instead they include urls to the BBC, firefox, yale, amazon. I’m sure this is some sort of attack to make automatic comment spam functionality block trusted sites in an attempt to make website publishers [...]

No doubt this also has a virus but hey I use a mac and besides I was too busy laughing to download anything.
Hello! (address removed) for a fast exchange of messages suggests you establish Yahoo.Com Agent. Download you can directly in this letter I have attached last version of the program program to the [...]

Now using iPod style branding.
I still don’t need Viagra but when I do…

Okay so spam is bad. Today however I got a mail and I didn’t recognise who from. So I started to read the joke and then at the end realised it was definitely spam. Still at least it made a change.
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Subject: The Blonde and the Sheep.
Date: 29/4/05, 8:01 am
From: Harry
To: iain
Once upon a time, a [...]

Would you even consider dealing with a company that uses the worst english in the world to try and avoid spam filters?
This pitiful attempt did make it into my inbox today -
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Spam Spam Spam
I hate it and it’s getting worse!
Plus when you come in at 08:30 on a monday morning you don’t want to be seeing this kind of thing in your mailbox.