# Is it a coincidence or a result of the May Day Boycott? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 2, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-a-coincidence-or-a-result-of-the-may-day-boycott/355023 "2006-05-02T00:11:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-a-coincidence-or-a-result-of-the-may-day-boycott/355023/1 "2006-05-02T00:11:36Z")
Has anyone else noticed an absence of SPAM today? I have two e-mail accounts. One is just a SPAM magnet. Today, there is none. zero, zip, nada. Nothing in the filter file. I’ve never not had any junk mail. Puzzling. 😕 (I don’t really believe it could be from the boycott.) ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-a-coincidence-or-a-result-of-the-may-day-boycott/355023/2 "2006-05-02T00:18:41Z")
I haven’t gotten much spam for the last few days, now that I think of it. Wierd. ---
**Author:** ![treis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-a-coincidence-or-a-result-of-the-may-day-boycott/355023/3 "2006-05-02T06:25:15Z")
I recieved an e-mail about an hour and a half ago extolling the benfits of HGH (human growth hormone) to “Trick Mother Nature!”, so SPAM is not completely gone. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-a-coincidence-or-a-result-of-the-may-day-boycott/355023/4 "2006-05-02T06:59:47Z")
Well, it isn’t completely gone, but I only had 4 messages since last night, as opposed to the usual 15-20 spam messages I get in a day. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-a-coincidence-or-a-result-of-the-may-day-boycott/355023/5 "2006-05-02T07:49:42Z")
I still have zero. I don’t miss it… exactly. I feel like I’ve disappeared 😕 ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-a-coincidence-or-a-result-of-the-may-day-boycott/355023/6 "2006-05-02T17:53:56Z")
Not me. I’ve had a surge in them lately, due, I think, to posting my e-mail address on a local Japanese restaurant weblog and ordering an OTC medication from overseas. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-a-coincidence-or-a-result-of-the-may-day-boycott/355023/7 "2006-05-02T17:58:47Z")
yeah well, laugh at spam or ignore it, but I’ll be here with my giant expando-penis, and my low-interest Visa meeting hot married chicks that just want to do me all the time, while you all worry about this “spam”. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-a-coincidence-or-a-result-of-the-may-day-boycott/355023/8 "2006-05-02T18:16:46Z")
I can’t get into either of my emails lately, my spam mail or my friend mail… and I suspect that when I do, I will be inundated with SPAM SPAM SPAM! ☹ But I _will_ stop and check if any of it came from May 1. 😉 Unless I throw my computer out the window first, drive over it several times with the Mazda, sprinkle the remains with gasoline and light them on fire, then tamp the ashes into some homemade fireworks and cackle madly as I set them off. Then I may never know. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-a-coincidence-or-a-result-of-the-may-day-boycott/355023/9 "2006-05-02T19:46:28Z")
Yesss… it’s so clear now - Illegal Mexicans are responsble for penis enlargement & college degree for life experience spam … but…but _how_? Those diabolical wetbacks!