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I had to go away for a few days and my laptop decided to refuse to cooperate once I got there.  On my return my laptop decided to behave, and I discover 1412 Spam messages waiting for me (safely in my spam collector, thank goodness).

Most of the spam messages are illiterate, and, if they are selling something, it's hard to see what. It's even harder to see why anyone would want to respond to such weird messages.

So - what is the point of spam? I can't get my mind round it.