I have a few posts rumbling around in my brain, but my brain is quite soupier than usual due to being filled with phlem and an erratic but strong compulsion to cough. Even when the coughing does nothing but make my head hurt worse. My brain is so soupy it is completely unable to make the connection.
Rather than post some longwinded (yes, I know I am) discourse which turns out to be too phlemy to make any sense I shall ask you a question.
Do you ever click on any of the spam which comes into your mailbox uninvited?
This has never seemed to be an issue for me. I made a decision long ago that I would not aid nor abet the spammers by ever, ever, ever clicking on any spam, no matter how sparkly or fascinating. The reasoning was something to the effect that if no one ever clicked on any spam spam would eventually be deemed useless and it would cease forevermore. Sadly my little Campaign Against Spam (CANSTSPAM) has not worked as effectively as I would have liked. But I am nothing if not certifiably committed and have never clicked on a single link.
It was all going quite swimmingly for me until the other day when I got the very first spam which looked interesting and reasonable. I sat in front of my computer for several long minutes debating the pros and cons of throwing my Campaign out the window for the sake of satisfying my curiosity. In the end I deleted the message and emptied my trash immediately so as to remove the temptation once and for all. It was the fear that clicking on that link would notify every spammer in the world instantly that my email address was a keeper, thereby increasing my spam-to-real-mail ratio to 1 gazillion to 1 forevermore, that tipped the scales. [You do know, don't you, that when you click on that link at the bottom of the message to be removed from the mailing list that what you are in fact doing is confirming that your email address is valid, so that your valid email address gets put on a list and sold to the other dirty spammers? You knew that, right? It's not a conspiracy theory, dude. It's TRUTH.]
But I am still tempted by that message. And what if it returns, all glowy and seductive in my inbox once again? On a day when I am feeling rather more vulnerable and needy? WHAT IF I MUST KNOW the next time?
What's your story? Do you click?
Posted by grrlTravels at October 17, 2008 12:16 PMNever, I never ever click....they all turn out bad (I think).
Posted by: Stacey T at October 18, 2008 11:57 AMK taught me well, for that matter so did you! Nevre,never, never, never, never, never, never, never, CLICK!!
Posted by: Dave at October 20, 2008 3:11 PMI had a problem with pornographic spam at work a few years back. And Viagra offers. I actually did click on all of them and manually removed myself from the email list.
And it worked. They never came back to haunt me. Maybe pornographers and illicit drug salespeople have some scruples?
Posted by: erin O' at October 20, 2008 9:14 PMNever!! I never click.
Posted by: Tracie at October 22, 2008 9:37 PM