It's hard to think when you're not used to it.
Let’s face it - spam is not going away, not ever. Spam’s resilience in the face of our contempt and outrage is simple to explain: It works. Every so often, there’s a perfect storm of sender and subject line that will entice some poor schmuck to go against his better judgment and open the spam message.
As David Weinberger shows us, this is not one of those instances.
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I'm contentedly confident in my abilities and frequent correctness - and this is where you get to bask in my light. Though I'm superior, I'm not complacent. No siree, I spend much of my time trying to understand people, and why some of us are such freaks.
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September 6th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
LOL! Maybe the spammer was hoping to entice people. Make them say, nah! Couldn’t be… could it?
Smug Baldy
September 6th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
Could have been a typo. Maybe the author meant “Color”