...or so reads the subject line of a couple spams that have appeared in my email.
One is Message 9885, the other, Message 4235.
Oh, a new one just appeared: Extreme Content Violation Message 13014.
Although spam is not intrinsically interesting, I do find myself kind of interested in how these subject lines appropriate the language and syntax of trouble tickets (when a problem is reported to a tech support department, it gets logged in the tracking database as a "trouble ticket"), complete with the number meant to signify some sort of unique identity within the system.
When in fact, gajillions of identical messages have probably just clogged gajillions of inboxes like mine.
Given what is commonly considered acceptable content in mainstream America, I aspire to extreme content violations.
Posted by Emily at March 14, 2004 12:05 PM