Anti-viral Bilge
What the heck is “anti-viral bilge”? From what (little) I know of sailing and medicine, I can certainly imagine what it’s supposed to be, but I can’t say I have every heard of such a thing (nor do I suppose I want to know what it is).
Oh wait - It’s the subject of a spam I got earlier today.
Can someone explain to me what they think these degenerate lowlifes are going to accomplish by sending nonsensical emails?
Testing your email address to see if it bounces, then selling it to the highest bidder.
Which, of course, is how I make all my extra income.
Comment by Jim — 12/19/2005 @ 8:19 am
…and here I was stupidly thinking that they were trying to get people who didn’t know better to buy something from them.
Glad to know that my anti-spam artillery is pretty damn effective (knocking on wood that it stays that way…).
Comment by Brian — 12/19/2005 @ 2:46 pm
Oh, there’s plenty of those - like the ones from Vortex Supplies that I’ve had to warn people off about 800 times: “Did you see these fantastic toner prices?!” “Yes. Did *you* do a search on the company name?” “Why? Oh. I see.” Yep, if the first 800 hits are people screaming for the company’s death, you might get the odd idea that they suck! Who knew?
The gibberish ones, I’ve been told, are meant to simply establish that it is a working address. What a world.
Comment by Jim — 12/19/2005 @ 4:02 pm