True Story

I obviously knew spammers were stupid, but one today was especially stupid: he sent the spam with hundreds of addresses openly showing in the “To” line.
And this is why spam actually works: so far, 85 of the recipients were obliviots enough to “Reply All” to say something or another.
And now you know the difference between “stupid” and “obliviot”.

People should have to pass a test to be allowed to have a “Reply All” function on their email.

Via Spam Primer. (Yeah, another one of mine. I have a lot of sites — most of them are about thinking in one way or another.)

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Randy Cassingham is best known as the creator of This is True®, the oldest entertainment feature on the Internet: it has been running weekly by email subscription since early 1994. It is social commentary using weird news as its vehicle so it’s fun to read. Click here for the site — basic subscriptions are free.


Comments? Sorry: Facebook retired their commenting system (they didn’t even bother to alert me). Just as well, I suppose, but sadly there is no way to recover the many hundreds of comments made on this site. Lesson learned: never rely on someone else’s site for prime functions, especially “social media”!

Since this site is mostly retired now (maximum of one new post per month), I did decide that since all comments are now gone that I would not attempt to install any new commenting system. -rc

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