Where’s the peanut butter?!

Here I am, back again to raise the question “exactly why do you still have this blog, again?”

Am I the only one who’s actually kind of entertained by spam? The evolution of spam has been kind of interesting. Today, I believe that heuristics in any remotely decent email system are good enough that I really feel like spam, as a problem, is pretty much a dead issue. It’s certainly not gone as a phenomenon and I don’t predict that for a very, very long time (as long as I get ads for the local grocery store in the physical mail, I’m sure that the vastly cheaper ads for viagra will keep coming to my inbox) but I almost never have to see spam anymore. There are probably no more than 2-5 spam messages per week that hit my gmail inbox. But when it does, I mark the message as spam and sometimes, like today, I notice that there are 2,000+ spam messages in my spam folder and then I take a peek at what’s in there. In their efforts to try to get past spam filters, there seems to be a lot more creativity to the spam messages now than there were a couple years ago (though I have to confess I don’t pay close attention to this). Anyway - here are some of my favorites, just from the ~30 that showed up on the first screen, and just the subject lines:

• “Support for your boning!”
• “The most advanced PE pill available today”
• “Be super stud de luxe!”
• “The effects of this pilule raise your prick. What else does a man need?”
• “Having a bigger thing in pants is every man▓s dream”
• “No problem in raising wang”
• “Become her passionate lion”