spam

This is a new one on me. I just got spam (that bypassed the pobox spam-rating system with narry a blip) from someone selling diapers and other baby-related stuff. That's just as far off the mark as the spam I get telling me I can enlarge my penis.

But it gets better. You see, she's not actually advertising a brand of diapers. She says that if I send her $3 she'll tell me the *name* of this amazing brand of diapers (and also the name of an amazing brand of formula, and some other junk). So it's spam advertising ads!

The mind boggles.

(Oh, and send cash or make checks out to "cash"; there's no actual name...)

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Memo to self: on Tuesday, I have to remember to vote against Kate <somebody> (somewhat illegible; hope it's unambiguous) for judge. I don't know how qualified she is, but she or her minions engage in phone-spam, and that's enough for me. It's one thing to have your people make calls; it's another to have your machine make calls and fail to detect answering machines. My machine cut it off after 3 minutes, but I still had to wait through it to get to the second message -- which then turned out to be a wrong number. Grr.

(Yeah, I know I can get a better machine, but that's fundamentally the same argument as "use your delete key". It's a coping mechanism, not a justification of bad behavior.)