I get so much spam, and the intentional spelling mistakes they put in to bypass filtering makes me do a double-take sometimes.

Today I got some legitimate e-mail, and I nearly thought of hitting the ‘Junk’ button in my mail client (the excellent Thunderbird, btw) because the product name in it wasn’t an english word. I get so many funny spellings of real words, that when I see a misspelling (for trademark reasons I’m guessing) of anything, I think it’s spam.

I’m probably getting a couple hundred spam messages a day between my 4 regularly used personal mailboxes – work’s filter does a good job, and only lets through a message or two a day.

Categories: Fun with words
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