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I love spam:

How interesting, I am being sued. It says so in this email I got. I must go to the web site and enter in all my personal information, including bank account info, to determine if I am the correct William Christopher. Very interesting indeed.

Oh lookie, and for "love muscle" enlargments and medication for woody Disfunction. I think not, God was kind to me at birth.

Oh wonderus, deals on cheap "factory" software. (Chinese copys of crappy MS products.) No thanks, if I want a crappy copy of an MS product, I will go to best buy

And yet another banker from Nigeria willing to cut me in on a great deal.

I get on average, about 8 of these a day now. I block them, and yet they still come. Oh well. The price I pay for sticking with crappy arse Email-Exress.

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Only 8 a day?! What the heck are you complaining about AT?! I get, hold on to your socks, a staggering 50 of those a day. Yes, that is in only 24 hours. Imagine when I go on vacation or away for work... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif
Ah well, I just ignore them and delete them with two simple clicks. I'm not bothered by them at all. They're just a fact of live.

Hahaha... Woody Disfunction. I love that term! Great thinking AT!

Oh, please look at the Tech Gridder thread I started. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/redface.gif

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Be lucky you only get 8! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif I probably get about a hundred or more a day, Richard gets several times that. We finally did get a commercial product for spam for Richard's email when it started taking him over a half an hour just to download his mail in the morning. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/mad.gif

Oh and when we went on vacation this past summer for two weeks? That took HOURS and HOURS to download before he could even start going through it.

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I Get None, God is kind to my e-mail inbox http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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A recent article said Billy G. gets something like 3 million a day! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

Of course, he just hires a staff of programmers to deal with it for him.....

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At one point, about a year ago, I was getting 300 a day! I've changed ISP's since then and now I get about 2 or 3 a week. ahhh.

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I also get none.

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Something suddenly possessed my sister to start to open, read and printout the emails from her spam folder at work. I told her to just forget about it, but she's intrigued. She's mystified at the contents -- random words, strung together from one of those text generators. I told her it was an attempt to beat spam filters -- so she asks, "Why?".

You know, I have no answer for that question. The spam filter finds it anyway, so it doesn't even work. They're not trying to sell her anything, there's no plaintext. There's no embedded image or HTML to send an infection, so I'm drawing a blank as to why the emails are sent.

They're from a German domain, so I'm just guessing the computer geeks at her school have script kiddie friends in Europe and they slam the networks at each other's school for the fun of it.

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Is your sister unhappy at work and trying to waste the company printer ink?

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Well until i setup a new email address i got like 20+ per day. Now im getting one or two per day, which is okay...