SPAM In A Can Beats SPAM in Your In-Box
Posted By Administrator on June 25, 2009
In the movie based on the Stephen King novel, Misery, Kathy Bates (who portrays the deranged nurse and “number one fan” responsible for rescuing James Caan’s character from a car accident) serves up a meatloaf enhanced with a secret ingredient known as SPAM. My recollection is that SPAM is a meat product sold in a rectangular blue can with a nifty flip-top. I diligently researched the topic and can state with conviction that SPAM first hit the marketplace in 1937. Apparently, it still arrives on your grocer’s shelf in a blue rectangle-shaped can with a nifty flip-top. It also invades my e-mail.
Is it me or has SPAM (of the latter variety) conspired to make me insane? Case and point: if I know you and you attempt to send me an e-mail that is legitimate (and that I actually want to read), it will go to my SPAM folder. If I don’t know you at all and you are on a quest to inform me that you have a miracle drug that will enlarge my male organ, well, that will show up in my in-box every time. Given that I am of the female persuasion, I am uncertain how those miracle drugs will benefit me. I’m pretty sure some type of surgical procedure would be required. But I digress.
SPAM filters are supposed to filter out SPAM and allow legitimate e-mail to reach my account, isn’t that correct? Perhaps I was asleep the day the powers-that-be taught that class. Okay, so I do zone out on Friday afternoons. Guess I missed that lecture.
My paranoia is in overdrive so I took it upon myself to try a little experiment. I sent myself normal e-mails from several different e-mail addresses. (You may recall that I stay up late and have to find some way to amuse myself). Although I didn’t bother to record the actual numbers, I discovered that the e-mails I sent to myself overwhelmingly went to that infamous SPAM folder. Conversely, I was inundated with those aforementioned e-mails promising to enlarge my non-existent male organ.
The point of this late night musing is that if you’ve sent me a legitimate e-mail and have not received a timely response, please give me a heads up. Likely, it’s waiting for me in my SPAM folder.
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