Apparently, I am spam. I'm not sure I believe this, in particular as I'm far to vain to be such a boring thing. However, more than one person has said this so whilst I deplore the idea of being assigned the 'so dull as not worth bothering' tag by a random computer programme I must accept that it is somehow true and that sadly I have not been identified as in any way special. In some email clients you can mark people as 'NOT JUNK' which I like because almost all the people I actually want to correspond with are not junk at all, else I wouldn't be corresponding.
I feel offended. In my inbox everyday there are emails from people with far more unlikely email addresses than mine, most of them spam. My email client doesn't seem to distinguish between good, bad, rubbish or just plain ludicrous; 'You are due a tax rebate of £3,562. Click here to enter your details for payment.' This is ludicrous because I haven't earned enough to even pay that much tax in a very long time, let alone be due it as a rebate. They really should check the income status of the people they send those emails to, otherwise it's a big waste of everyone's time, theirs and mine. In fact if I was an Internet crook I'd definitely try and target my spam more carefully, perhaps even do a little market research.
But then you see sending things out into the Internet isn't my style at all, I'm far more picky than that. So if you ever get an email from me you should count yourself very lucky indeed. And also somehow let your email client know that I'm a little more important than spam.
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