SPAM In A Can Beats SPAM in Your In-Box

Irene C. Olszewski, Esq. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:41:52 +0000

In the movie based on the Stephen King novel, Misery, Kathy Bates (who portrays the deranged nurse and “number one fan” responsible for rescuing James Caan’s character from a car accident) serves up a meatloaf enhanced with a secret ingredient known as SPAM. My recollection is that SPAM is a meat product sold in a rectangular blue can with a nifty flip-top. I diligently researched the topic and can state with conviction that SPAM first hit the marketplace in 1937. Apparently, it still arrives on your grocer’s shelf in a blue rectangle-shaped can with a nifty flip-top. It also invades my e-mail.

Is it me or has SPAM (of the latter variety) conspired to make me insane? Case and point: if I know you and you attempt to send me an e-mail that is legitimate (and that I actually want to read), it will go to my SPAM folder. If I don’t know you at all and you are on a quest to inform me that you have a miracle drug that will enlarge my male organ, well, that will show up in my in-box every time. Given that I am of the female persuasion, I am uncertain how those miracle drugs will benefit me. I’m pretty sure some type of surgical procedure would be required. But I digress.

SPAM filters are supposed to filter out SPAM and allow legitimate e-mail to reach my account, isn’t that correct? Perhaps I was asleep the day the powers-that-be taught that class. Okay, so I do zone out on Friday afternoons. Guess I missed that lecture.

My paranoia is in overdrive so I took it upon myself to try a little experiment. I sent myself normal e-mails from several different e-mail addresses. (You may recall that I stay up late and have to find some way to amuse myself). Although I didn’t bother to record the actual numbers, I discovered that the e-mails I sent to myself overwhelmingly went to that infamous SPAM folder. Conversely, I was inundated with those aforementioned e-mails promising to enlarge my non-existent male organ.

The point of this late night musing is that if you’ve sent me a legitimate e-mail and have not received a timely response, please give me a heads up. Likely, it’s waiting for me in my SPAM folder.

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SPAM In A Can Beats SPAM in Your In-Box