Spam

Just like everyone else on the planet, I recieve several annoying emails a day suggesting some form penis enlarging pill, or whatever. I obviously slipped up somewhere and put out my email adress in the wrong spot. Oh well, no big deal, Yahoo! catches most of them and puts them in the Bulk mailbox, which i quickly scan before deleting, as it occasionally filters out a legit email.

I am by no means overwhelmed with emails. I find them annoying, but I have been fortunate enough to keep my main account clean enough over the past 7 or so years, that I can still use it. I have garbage (hotmail) accounts that I use when I sign up for stuff.

My question is, who the hell is actually buying this stuff that it makes it worthwhile to send it, etc. Some hick probably actually thinks he can double the size of his wang, and keeps these loser spammers thinking that they can make some nice coin.

An alternative conspiracy theory, that probably isn't that original, but I thought of it in the shower this morning, is that the funding is comming from the companies that make anti-spam software. There are mountrains of money in the anti-spam software industry, and I'd bet you dollars to doughnuts that some of those big software firms are shelling out cash to these spammers so that people will need to buy their software.

Is it true? I don't know, but I wouldn't doubt it. Can we do anything about it? Not bloody likely. I just try to keep my main addresses safe and hope for the best.