I’m not a big fan of mass e-mail. I don’t write them, I don’t like to recieve them. I love personal e-mail or messages, even from friends I haven’t met yet, but bulk advertisements bother me.
I occasionally entertain myself by replying with some comment or another. I know the inconsiderate sender may never actually read my witty responce, but it keeps me from going postal.
Today I recieved an e-mail advertising a list of e-mail addresses for bulk mailing. For $300 you too could be the proud owner of 11 million e-mail addresses to send bulk mail to. This gave me enough of a thrill that I read the thing. Above and beyond the claims that e-mail can sell more stuff than any other media they also claimed that this list was so clean you could eat off of it. They filtered all the dirty words out and “Then we used our private database of thousands of known “extremists”, opposed to commercial e-mail, and kicked off every one we could find.”
The fact they missed me amuses me to no end.