Dec 2, 2010
I have received, but have never eaten Spam. I used to laugh at it hysterically when I watched the old Monty Python sketch. I thought it had the flavour of irony. All that changed with email, when it took on a more insidious taste. I remember the first time I got...
Dec 22, 2009
If I can borrow a thought from Gertrude Stein, ‘a spam is a spam is a spam’.And I think it’s safe to say it’s something we all despise.This year, spam has turned seasonal with the proliferation of holiday e-cards. They’re coming fast and...
Aug 16, 2008
When people from my agency go on vacation, we try to give them an email holiday, too.We stop cc’ing them and prepare an update that they receive just before they get back with a summary of what happened, the most recent drafts of documents and so on.Of course,...
Jul 6, 2008
For the past several weeks, my spam filter has been blocking emails I’m calling insult spam. The New York Times wrote about them in June, around the time I started receiving them. (Oh, how wonderful it is to be an early adopter!)Basically, these messages have a...
