# WHAT - the FUCK - was THAT? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 23, 2001, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-was-that/88997 "2001-10-23T01:26:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-was-that/88997/1 "2001-10-23T01:26:57Z")
Open up my email. 212 messages in my inbox. Yes, sir. 212 messages in my inbox. All from the same place. [user67@yahoo.com](mailto:user67@yahoo.com). MORTGAGE RATES HAVE NEVER BEEN LOWER! _ **212** _ of them. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-was-that/88997/2 "2001-10-23T01:30:02Z")
Well damn, boy. Don’t you think it’s high time you filled out a mortgage application or something??? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Asylum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@Asylum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asylum)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-was-that/88997/3 "2001-10-23T01:33:06Z")
I think that in your situation the only morally allowable option is to send them 212 copies of [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=92590) thread, only addressed to the head of the mortgage company instead. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-was-that/88997/4 "2001-10-23T01:36:44Z")
Personal record: **867** from the same company, in one day, to my hotmail account. Some sort of work from home scam, as I recall. ---
**Author:** ![Chas.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@Chas.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chas.E)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-was-that/88997/5 "2001-10-23T02:09:40Z")
If you think that’s awful, wait til you get a load of something I saw on the crawl at the bottom of the screen on CNN. I didn’t catch the beginning, just enough to make me furious. “…urges advertisers to abandon mail, use email instead.” Just WHO is doing this urging? I’d like to forward them a few thousand spams I got over the last few months. ---
**Author:** ![Searching\_For\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Searching\_For\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Searching_For_Truth)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-was-that/88997/6 "2001-10-23T02:12:45Z")
Are you recruiting us to email this person back, and spam the hell out of them? [sub]Cuz I just did. -manical laughter- ---
**Author:** ![They\_Call\_Me\_Sneeze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@They\_Call\_Me\_Sneeze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/They_Call_Me_Sneeze)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-was-that/88997/7 "2001-10-23T02:21:06Z")
The WORST spams, I think, are the ones that use the subject line to try and fool you: “Susan, how could you do this to me?” “Re: office policy” “You’ll never guess who I saw yesterday.” Argh! Fuck off, you pseudosmart bags of dirty neurons. Trying to fool me into opening your email -and, might I add, failing- just makes me delete you all the more harder. Here’s a subject line for you: “Cyber-ass, meet cyber-fist - I have a feeling you two are going to be close!” Which doesnt really make sense, but still. Sneeze, whose name is NOT susan ---
**Author:** ![Mikahw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Mikahw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikahw)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-was-that/88997/8 "2001-10-23T05:02:38Z")
You think that’s bad? I’ve been getting around 300 messages an hour from the same address for a day or two now! When I checked my email, I found 1100 messages in my junk mail folder! :mad: Unfortunately I don’t remember the address, but there was something about a mortgage in the subject. The subject was a little different from the OP’s, though. Thank god (if there is one, but that’s for another thread…) for the blocked sender’s list. I’ve put that asshole on there and havn’t got a message from that address since. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-was-that/88997/9 "2001-10-23T05:14:10Z")
I’m not a computer geek, but isn’t that pretty much like a denial of service bug? You know, just jamming the server, or whatever. (and I even worked in IS for a while. Scary, no?) ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-was-that/88997/10 "2001-10-23T05:17:09Z")
I got one today entitled “put holes in concrete with your dick.” Seriously. I guess they’re going to teach me how to ejaculate plastique. ---
**Author:** ![sirjamesp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@sirjamesp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirjamesp)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-was-that/88997/11 "2001-10-23T06:36:41Z")
I had “Lift a car with your dick”. It’s probably to get the car out of the holes blasted in the road by **andygirl** ’s chums’ dicks. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-was-that/88997/12 "2001-10-23T14:33:24Z")
You know, Hotmail **does** offer junk mail protection, and it works like a charm. Just empty your junk mail folder from time to time, and voila! Painless email existence. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-was-that/88997/13 "2001-10-23T14:45:04Z")
I have taken to calling companies that pull shit like this. “Hello, company x” “Hi.” … “Hello?” “Hi, can I help you?” “Well, I’m not sure…Are you the one who is in charge of the spamming email your company has recently sent?” “…No” “Oh. Well, can you please be sure to tell whoever IS responsible to go fuck themselves with an ice cream scoop? Thanks.” click. Or many of the times, they’re smart enough to have someone not answer the phones, they just have an answering machine so they cna get back in touch with you. So I just play a 90 second song on the buttons on my phone. It’s a lovely medly starting with “Mary had a Little Lamb” working up to a big finish with “Funky Town”. Pricks. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-was-that/88997/14 "2001-10-23T14:47:36Z")
You haven’t lived until you’ve gotten back from a 3 day weekend at work and had over two hundred (mostly non-spam) messages sitting in your inbox. Now that’s depressing. Nothing like spending a couple of days doing nothing but answering e-mail to really kick off a week… ---
**Author:** ![Acco40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58956e/32.png) [@Acco40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acco40)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-was-that/88997/15 "2001-10-23T15:05:52Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **matt\_mcl** _: > > Yes, sir. 212 messages in my inbox. Huh. The first question: Why one message? The second question: Why’d they stop??? ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-was-that/88997/16 "2001-10-23T20:21:40Z")
> [@](#): > > It’s a lovely medly starting with “Mary had a Little Lamb” working up to a big finish with “Funky Town”. Hey can you teach me the Funky Town one? I love that song, and the chance to annoy with it is too much to pass up. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-was-that/88997/17 "2001-10-23T20:45:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Acco40 \* > \*\*Huh. The first question: Why one message? The second question: Why’d they stop??? \*\* Just a WAG here but some ISP’s or otherwise well run e-mail servers will recognize a spam-a-thon and will eventually block the messages from that address. Sometimes an ISP might even notice someone using them as a conduit for spam and will move to block that account. Unfortunately the second type is relatively rare but you can find references to it in their Acceptable Use documentation. When I get spam I pen a note to both my ISP and the sender’s ISP pointing out the spammer and my objection to it. Takes about 30 seconds for me to do and I might get lucky and have the bastard(s) account terminated or blocked. What gets me now are the messages from [wzkY63iF@yahoo.com](mailto:wzkY63iF@yahoo.com). The message will have no remove option but rather a note to the effect that this is a one-time correspondance from that e-mail address so don’t bother responding. Of course, I get the same crap again from [jUsh5Haq@yahoo.com](mailto:jUsh5Haq@yahoo.com) the next day telling me the same shit and then [ldiY7osj@yahoo.com](mailto:ldiY7osj@yahoo.com) the next and so on ad nauseum. Fucking pricks piss me off. Isn’t there some way to charge them back for using your e-mail to advertise? I thought a few states (like California) had some way to sue assholes like these. Am I just remembering wrong? ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-was-that/88997/18 "2001-10-23T21:11:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by stuffinb \* > Hey can you teach me the Funky Town one? I love that song, and the chance to annoy with it is too much to pass up. \*\* Sure! Well, It’s not exact, but it’s kinda close: 2212112#96 (I’m sure you can figure out the beat to use) I learned it by watching Towely. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-was-that/88997/19 "2001-10-24T01:38:53Z")
Some 360 more this morning. Grand total: about 570. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-was-that/88997/20 "2001-10-24T07:04:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Beadalin \* > \*\*You know, Hotmail **does** offer junk mail protection, and it works like a charm. Just empty your junk mail folder from time to time, and voila! Painless email existence. \*\* I actually use the spam filter on hotmail, and I filled up the block list in a few weeks… now I get even more spam than ever! (in both the junk mail folder and the inbox) Am I missing something? What are you doing different, **Bead**? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-was-that/88997.md?page=2)