Wacky E-mails and the Political Season
I don’t receive as much spam as I used to, which I attribute to gmail doing a pretty great job at sifting out the junk. However, there’s always the strange the occasional ones that get through, including a rather striking and depressing clunker that I received today advising me of the dangers of electing a president of the United States named “Barack Hussein Obama?” (it’s headlined: FW: WHO IS BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA?”
It goes on to spread the truth on the “facts,” that Mr. Obama is black (wow, really?), and a “radical Muslim.” It helps us in understanding all of this by capitalizing these words throughout the e-mail.
It must be political season, and time for the most xenophobic and ignorant people to come out of the woodwork to spread their messages of hope and fear this holiday season.
On a much brighter note, this is the most exciting political year from a pure spectator standpoint in a long, long time. The best part, in my view, is that there is any number of highly qualified candidates – no matter what your ideological point of view – to choose from.
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January 23rd, 2008 at 9:49 am
Hilarious! I love my gmail as well. I filters out 99% of spam! I still get a trickle of porn spam emails from Italy.
Best,
Nick from Dorks Guide
January 30th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Thanks Nick!
I’ve noticed an uptick of spam getting through to gmail of late, have had to start using the mark-as-spam button more often.
Let’s also note an important point if you don’t want spam to rule your e-life: *never* sign up for an online contest or sweepstakes… and if you do, use an e-mail address that you don’t rely on for important communications!