(ps sorry to hear about your pot noodle)

An eminently sensible response to a thoroughly flippant comment from me. It’s always good to have people to raise the tone.

As regards racism etc, it’s an interesting hypothetical. I’ll tell you WHY it doesn’t happen - money. Most spammers either want to sell stuff or to scam money out of you by pretending to sell you stuff. Further, it’s a fairly expensive business running a spambot network with sufficient volume to generate any level of return.

Racist nastiness doesn’t have that money-generating property and terrorist nastiness is normally trying to keep under cover rather than broadcasting.

As for the prevailing subject matter for spam, I do indeed get mightily offended. How dare they insinuate my pot noodle isn’t big or satisfying enough.

;-P

On reading this post, however, I can’t help wondering how male people feel when they get this type of spam. For me, the “your” clearly doesn’t refer to me, but I guess this isn’t so for the blokes. I don’t think I would like to receive unsolicited email that referred to my personal organs.

Also, it seems to be taken as read that the war against spam has been lost, owing to sheer volume. But I wonder what would happen if spammers started blanketing the internet with ideological spam, say racism, or other forms of hate speech, or something a bit terrorist-ish?

I am surprised that a man as cosmopolitan and, dare I say it, widely published as your yourself should be so out of touch with popular culture.

;-P