OT: High-level spam...

[Fyron]

Ed Kolis said:
Heh, a gmail "corporate" email address... what a company, too cheap to get a domain name I wonder if Google even allows gmail to be used for commercial purposes...

Yes. Why would they care? Commercial uses still generate ad views. Also, have you not heard of Google Apps, an explicit way to use Google services, including email, for businesses?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

@Ed: Don't worry...The pills make it allll better. But seriously, I'm dealing.

I missed that it was a gmail address. Heh.


I've looked at Spamusement before. It's funny for a while, but the viagra jokes/spam get(s) annoying even second-hand.

[Randallw]

for the record I too have a mental illness and am on a disability pension (my mother thinks everyone here is probably like me and Narf and has nothing better to do )

yes, I too get spam like that

"Please kind sir, I have cancer and neeed help. Donations welcome"

oh that's nice, I think, an appeal to my sense of pity. How unfortunate I don't have one.

That and I don't trust anything from Africa. It will be a bad day when someone from Africa has a genuine reason to contact me, I can't imagine why, and I ignore it as soon as I see their name is Jospeh Mbutu or it's from Nigeria.

Edit: Don't get the idea I'm heartless. I'll help disabled people through the door if I'm walking past. It's just when I see stuff on TV going on about some sick person and how they need an operation I am unable to see why it should concern me. Thus an appeal designed to make me feel sorry for someone and offer help is doomed to fail.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

There's guilt and then there's guilt-trips. I don't appreciate people trying to trip me.

[Randallw]

"There is no innocence...only varying degrees of guilt."

[narf poit chez BOOM]

...Usually that phrase is used to justify hating people for not living up to unrealistic expectations.

[Atrocities]

the first hint that it was spam would have been hrdep.mcneil@gmail.com

[Randallw]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
...Usually that phrase is used to justify hating people for not living up to unrealistic expectations.

Well it's from Warhammer 40K, probably said by an Inquisitor. A setting where failing to survive being shot at means you don't believe in the Emperor enough.

although I do feel it has some merit. It would take a discussion about original sin and the needs of small children to explain it.

[capnq]

Randallw said: I don't trust anything from Africa. It will be a bad day when someone from Africa has a genuine reason to contact me, I can't imagine why, and I ignore it as soon as I see their name is Jospeh Mbutu or it's from Nigeria.

A perfect excuse to plug one of my favorite webcomics: Irregular Webcomic!

[Randallw]

capnq said: A perfect excuse to plug one of my favorite webcomics: Irregular Webcomic!

Being Australian I already know about IWC, and check every night at 9pm assured there will be a new one. I also now read Darths and Droids.