Archive for February 25th, 2013
Spam
This mornings discovery of spam in my regular e-mail, prompted me to search for better control, a filter fix/upgrade…anything to get rid of the obnoxious UBE’s (Unsolicited Bulk Mail).
Following Window’s 8 prompts, no matter what I did I could not get passed the second step. I tried att/yahoo, Sonic, Firefox, and made repeated visits to my PC control and management programs. Alas, more than two hours later I am confused and unsuccessful.
Then, wondering just what spam is, I went searching for information. Some things emerged from this formidable morass that I could easily grasp. But I confess to being awed, not only by the legalities, but by the volume produced via this form of unsolicited mail. In 2011, 7 billion pieces of spam were delivered by spammers through a process called spamming.
The contemporary use of the word spam is traced to a skit from Monty Python’s Flying Circus, which I remember seeing and thought hilarious.
I am not laughing at the moment. However, as my mind begins creating a sardonic play on the revelations of this morning, a smile teases the conscious corners of my morning adventure. I can almost hear Monty Python singing, ‘spam,spam,spam, spam, spam….’