Subject: What If You Died Tomorrow?
Is the subject heading of a spam email I just received. Unfortunately, as with most spam these days, the subject heading bears no relation to the contents of the mail (a devilishly intelligent trick, of course, as I for one will only buy that penis enlargement I’ve been after if it is advertised in an email with the subject heading “Re: Your Details”).
Anyway, so this email wasn’t actually about what it pretended to be about, and it didn’t provide any answers to the existential questions it inevitably raised. What If [I] Died Tomorrow? Well, perhaps it’s a chilling death prediction, but I think the main consequence of my untimely death tomorrow would be that there would be no one around to delete the torrent of pointless, frustrating and annoying spam pouring into my hotmail account on a daily basis.
Since you asked, like.
Update: Experiment
Thinking further about the whole spam issue, I want to try a small experiment to see what happens when you post your email address on a publicly accessible website like this one, so here are two email addresses:
nosp_mplease2 [at] hotmail [dot] com
I discovered when I tried to set these up that, rather ironically, Microsoft won’t let you use the word “spam” anywhere in your email address username.
I wonder how long it will take for these addresses to get spam. Let’s wait and see.
[I have also created a third hotmail account, which will be my control address, to see how much spam you get just for having a hotmail address. I won’t be posting it anywhere or giving it out to anyone.]
