Spam, Spam, Spam

Damn I hate spam. I've been swatting at spam for so long that anything that looks remotely like spam gets blasted to bits by me first before I even do anything else.

So, what makes me suspect something as being spam?

1. Weird names in From field—Names that I have never seen before or names that do not even resemble anyone that I know immediately raise alarm bells as being spam.


2. Weird names in To/CC field—If none of the To or CC fields contain my email address explicitly, all my alarm bells will ring very loudly; no one BCCs things to me on normal occasions.


3. Odd attachments—Most folks do not usually send me any form of attachments, simply because I'm like an old dinosaur who likes to respond to pure text emails.


4. Weird formatting of text—Most spam-like emails contain lots of weird formatting, for instance big text, odd text colouring, centred text and strange letter-like character replacement of texts not amounting to 1337 sp34k4g3.


5. Odd phraseology—Things that contain odd phraseology like "from the desk of so-and-so" or even "most esteemed whoever"; no one writes like that for all practical purposes.

Thus, when I see any of these signs appearing in any email, the first thing that comes to mind is "spam".

*sighs* And that was how I ended up wronging a completely innocent person.

Bleagh... I think that I'm a little too aggressive this week, from the rants to this. I think that it is time that I actually cool down a little more... maybe it is sign to go back to writing poems; at least those writings are less aggressive than the ones that I have been doing lately...