Spam

Like the Cold War before it, the Spam War is a place in which the top minds in the field are battling for world domination while we, the little people, watch in horror and disgust.

We use a spam killer service here at work, called Postini, and it does a very good job of separating the wheat from the chaff. A few slip by, sometimes I can’t see how, but this morning one made it to my in basket and I just had to smile at the ingenuity of it:

This is what the V in Valium is composed of:

A bunch of letters and spaces using the <pre> tag and a small font size, ASCII Art if you will. I might have bought some of those medz if they had enough style to use all Vs to make the letter V and As to make the A and so on…

Heee’s baaack! I got one of these via gmail last October and this one came to the mr-miata account. This time it is baseball, not basketball, but it is nearly word for word otherwise. The snail mail addy & phone are the same. Both the phone number and ip address are from Norman, OK. I think, but can’t be sure, the email address is different. Still not sure what this is really about, but if you want in on this email me and I’ll forward you the email…

Hello,

I was browsing through the results from a search engine when I came across your site. It has a lot of good, relevant information and I was hoping that we could exchange links. Doing so would not only help our regular visitors find other useful pages, but it would also make our sites rank higher in search engines like Google, AOL, MSN, and Yahoo. Exchanging links would be free and beneficial for both of our sites.

The site has links at the top of every MLB team page which would give you access to local traffic and out of town visitor going to and from the games.

My web page is over 4 years old and receives more than 2,000 visitors a day. I try to offer the best information available on any topic I think my visitors would appreciate.

If you’d like to exchange links for our mutual benefit, I’d be happy to discuss it with you over email.

Sincerely,
Jeremy
MLBPlayers
2215 West Lindsey
Suite 102
Norman, Ok 73071
4053212922 (please no phone calls)

Spam Count: 64 for Friday, 62 on Saturday and 74 on Sunday.

Among the smut and meds, this week’s newest trend, uncounted riches are promised. I didn’t open them to see if they were a variation on the Nigerian scheme, but I’m betting they’re not, they are probably the usual crap with a “catchy” title.

rrlioynmfpqmqr@mypersonalemail.com sez: Mr. Payne has $989,165 for you and your fa…

yasijvmerlc@darkhorsefan.net sez: Mr. Morton has $063,327 for you and your f…

xtvkaknfj@a4.no sez: Mr. Gates has $490,781 for you and your fa…

htmwq@pearl-online.de sez: Mr. Farmer has $099,258 for your family

vhslmjhnumx@smapxsmap.com sez: Mr. Cotton has $992,774 for you

kqgmfauugb@flashmail.com sez: Mr. Olsen has $699,071 for you

Over the weekend the Spam Index here at bbogardus@asco.com dipped back into the sixties, with 66, 63 & 64 received. This morning we were back up to 78.

I wonder if I can get a restraining order against [no sender] because he keeps pestering me about [no subject].

arcosar@superonline.com was right, I just couldn’t ignore an email with the subject line that read, Just can’t ignore this email. I didn’t open it, but I couldn’t help writing about it here.

Thanks to CrawfordKWwqs@msn.com I now know where to get help if I’m ever bit by a radioactive archnid, the Spiderman Pharmacy.

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