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Monday, June 26, 2006
…”What are the subject lines of some of the emails Patsy received today?” Even if these, and many other equally ridiculously titled email messages, hadn’t been trapped by my anti-spam program, who in their right mind would open them anyway? I understand the economics of spam, which currently costs the sender so little, but would anyone be dumb enough to regard any of these as legitimate? Let’s not even mention the prescription drug and sexually tinged topics, which I suppose someone might look at. The most egregious offenders may be the senders who butcher the spelling of ordinary words to foil the spam filter. I’m a proofreader at heart and would like to take a red pencil to the screen! I use the free program ChoiceMail, a permission-based spam blocker which works effectively, requires very little time to maintain, and seems to have reduced the amount of would-be spam over time.