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Posted by Chris on June 15, 2006 at 12:36 pm.

Given the Biblical prohibition against charging interest, why do I keep getting so much spam from “Christian lenders”?
Discuss.

Filed under: Religion, Internet, Email

Posted by Chris on May 2, 2006 at 11:56 am.

Once you’ve begun inserting random consonants into words in a futile attempt to fool our anti-spam software, your subject line is no longer even remotely intelligible to English-speaking readers; and we’re not biting on opening the email to figure out what the flock “VtAzGRA,” “VALtUfM,” “AMBtEwN” and “CtAoLlS” are.
However, I was fascinated to learn that […]

Filed under: Internet, Email

Posted by Chris on March 21, 2006 at 10:04 am.

I administer email for friends and family members using my quinns.net domain. The process of creating a new email account on my server requires approximately thirty seconds and costs roughly $0.00.
This defies logical explanation:

NEW YORK (AP) — Budget constraints are forcing some FBI agents to operate without e-mail accounts, according to the agency’s […]

Filed under: U.S., Law, Internet, Email

Posted by Chris on March 6, 2006 at 2:50 pm.

Has anyone else noticed the recent evolution of spam subject lines? Not long ago, spammers were trying to entice me with subjects like “You need a bigger penis!” and “Christian home loans.” (That first one worked only for a year or two).
I’m now filtering about 20 of these each day:

Subject: Bush is a […]

Filed under: Politics, Culture, U.S., Internet, Email

Posted by Chris on March 2, 2006 at 9:31 am.

Have you ever wondered why you continue to receive those ridiculous Nigerian bank scam emails? Is there anyone alive who is sufficiently gullible to fall for such obvious fraud?
Yes, Mabel, such a person lives; and he’s a psychiatrist at UC Irvine:

A renowned psychiatrist from UC Irvine was duped into squandering at least $1.3 million […]

Filed under: Culture, Law, Internet, Email