E-mail spam

I was looking through my spam-catcher account (you know, the e-mail account I have simply to throw at all the online forms that inevitably add the bulk to your inbox) for a lost password when I realized that the first 187 messages were sent today.

Granted, I’ve had the e-mail address for a while and I do give it out a lot, but 187 is a shitload of spam for one day.

And then it occurred to me that if I wanted to be a really seedy bastard, I’d charge advertisers to drop ad e-mails into my users bulk folders. Because they can’t really complain - after all, my spam blocker caught the spam, right?

But everyone goes through their bulk mail every now and then, just in case. So sooner or later people are going to at least see the e-mail subject lines. Boom: advertising.

I wonder if that actually happens, because 187 e-mails is a LOT.