Spam

One of the creepiest few minutes of each week for me is going into my SPAM folder on Yahoo.

I can understand the purpose of having a SPAM folder and I appreciate it.  But, it’s strange to me that we live in a world so jam-packed with bad emails that it necessitates another folder for the garbage.

I am guessing the biggest factor that leads to an email going to SPAM is that it has approximately one bajillion people in the “To” block, give or take?

A secondary factor might be long, unrecognized sender email addresses.  A third might be the use of certain words in the body of the title.

I used to laugh at the titles of some of these emails.  Someone noticed me online and thinks I’m sexy (how is that possible?).  Cheap pharmaceuticals.  Foreign lotteries which I have won.  Weight loss secrets.  Cheap software.  And, the hits keep on coming…

I don’t open them–I’m scared that will lead to a virus.  But the titles used to seem funny to me.  Over there years, the humor as slowly crept out of them.  They no longer seem funny.  Many are vile, ominous, or downright ignorant.

I have continued opening the SPAM folder for that 1 of every 5,000 emails that slips through that should have gone to my Inbox.  I don’t think I can do it any longer.  I can’t open that rubbish and scan through all the (insert curse word) for the one email that shouldn’t be there.  It’s like wading through sewage for a penny.  It’s just not worth it.

And, so, my friends, if I do not reply to you, it could be that yours was that poor, unfortunate email that was sorted into my SPAM folder.  It is a cesspool down there.  The water isn’t great.  I’m sorry, my bad…give me a call on the phone.

~Bart