# What's wrong with Internet Glurge?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 28, 2001, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-internet-glurge/78466 "2001-08-28T03:07:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-internet-glurge/78466/18 "2001-08-28T16:29:18Z")

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I used a variation of Micco’s approach and it got my coworker to stop forwarding every joke he got. He does it occassionally, but he learned to take me off of his mailing list.

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