I received a comment spam today. It was manually entered by a living, breathing human being. I don't really have any commentary, just thought you should know.

And not really related, The Spam Mobile.

Finally, Spam and the (Tampa) Bay Area Renaissance Festival (BARF), could you ask for more?

Managing mail servers has given me an interesting perspective to the spam consumption of mail servers/relays on the internet. A majority of the email traffic running through my current mail server/relay is spam. Spam stinks, I think on this we can all agree. However, I have noticed an interesting phenomenon regarding the quanitty of spam people recieve.

And now, a little dramatic reenactment by the bitterpill.org players.

mail administrator: I shut down a mail alias for a user today. The server denied 1,700 email for that alias today. He gets over a thousand spam messages a day just for that one mail alias. Incredible.

another user: just 1,700 hundred. I get over 2,000 a day.

and...scene

I realized that as much as people hate spam, the quantity of spam you receive indicates some sort of mail prowess on your part, a kind of email/spam popularity that can be touted whenever someone mentions their spam reception quantities.

spd/epd = P - spams per day over emails per day = your email prowess.