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Jekyl’s World - Spam

Tonight I want to complain about spam. Now, those of you who have visited my web site know that I proudly display a link to the official Spam website. This semi-food product is right up there in the dietary value pyramid next to beer and cashews and I love it. But that’s not the kind of spam I want to talk about.

I’m talking about the kind that arrives in email. Every day I spend more time deleting this crap out of my inbox than I do actually reading mail. I probably accidentally delete real correspondence during my mindless deletions of these messages. I get, no exaggeration, 150 crap emails a day to the five email accounts that I maintain. They cover every conceivable subject (and a few I haven’t thought of) ranging from being interested in my financial independence to wanting me to watch her and her girlfriends do amazing things in front of their new web cam. When will enough be enough?

I’ve heard debates where people have argued that spam is not any different than the bulk mail the Post Office delivers each day. There is some merit to that, but the difference is that someone had to pay to send me that Victoria’s Secret catalogue. I’d like to think that paying for it causes you to select your audience carefully. You don’t have to pay to send an email. I’ve seen where you can purchase a list of one million email addresses for something like $25. You can send anything you want to zillions of people and hope that some small percentage of them are stupid enough to pay you for whatever you’re offering. I even got one from some lady “in Nigeria”, claiming to be the wife of a dead General or something, who wants me to help her deposit her last $37 Million in an American account. Well, Golly, maybe I can make some money helping her! Yeah, right.

The fact is, bulk unsolicited email does more than waste our time having to delete it. It clogs up everything; Our inboxes, the servers they sit on, the bandwidth we pay for to receive it and NOBODY likes it! Understanding that we are now actively setting our email filters to automatically route junk email to the trash, these soliciting assholes have gotten tricky. They don’t use so many key words that they did just a year ago like: porn, XXX, and stuff like that because they know we’re never seeing it. Now they’ve taken to making it appear that they’re replying to something that I sent them. “RE: Your Inquiry” type of thing. It is an ongoing battle and I am getting mighty sick of it. If I don’t sit down at the computer for a couple of days – which is rare, but does happen occasionally – I come back to hundreds of bullshit emails.

The problem is, I don’t know how to fix it. So if anyone out there comes up with a great way to fight back, let the jekylmeister know cause he’s wearing out the delete button.
Until Then,

CHEERS Jekyl