Wednesday 24 October 2007

the perils of staring at the spam filter as well as the inbox

I received emails

  1. selling viagra
  2. asking me if I wanted instant ***** *** with eighteen year old Latvian girls with tight ****s
  3. selling more viagra
  4. advertising some sort of hydraulic device to ensure instant **** ***s with said Latvians
  5. selling yet more viagra
  6. another suchlike device with a anatomical diagram explaining how the above works, for use with Lithuanians as well as Latvians
  7. selling a bit more viagra again
  8. and then the above-but-one email again with a flash animation, lest I might have misunderstood the diagram, for use with Estonians as well as Lithuanians and Latvians...


OK, so maybe there's a joker out there who thinks it's hilarious to write a program that distributes sick email spam to people with email domains @incredlyholyevangelicals.org.uk.

Or maybe there are more married and respectable upright men with email addresses @incrediblyholyevangelicals.org.uk who might partake of aforementioned Baltic services with viagra and hydraulic assistance? Maybe the person who wrote the programme to target such spam at @incrediblyholyevangelicals.org.uk isn't a sick joker as much as a canny businessman, responding to his market?

We all moan (and occasionally giggle) about it at work. But perhaps we're missing something that abstinence-based, sexually-repressive forms of faith fail to realise they might even be encouraging...

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