Fun with Spam

I get a lot of spam emails on this website.  My spam catcher is good, though, and they don’t get through (I’m pretty sure).

So I’m thinking I should preserve some of these gems of spamwriting. Perhaps I could spin them into an ebook with a humorous title.

The ones I like are those that say something like “Good webite this. I tell my friends. I realy like you stile of writing”. Yes, that’s an accurate transcription. Why would I even consider posting an illiterate comment even if it is full of so-called praise?

Another favorite would be the ones that come from Russian addresses which are simply rows of ??????, neatly divided into paragraphs, sometimes several pages long.

And yet… I know that many of these spam messages are of purely harmful intent. People out there either hate people like me or regard us as legitimate prey. Perhaps the dirty secret behind the internet is that it allows certain people to spread hate and distain, because we’re all so disconnected from the human actuality of others and they can only see us a potential victims.

We may claim to be “connected”, but we’re not.