At least there’s a funny side to spam

Date:January 16, 2006 / year-entry #22
Tags:non-computer
Orig Link:https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060116-13/?p=32643
Comments:    7
Summary:Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines! It's pretty much what the title says. Don't forget to read the fan mail. Sometimes it's even funny.

Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines!

It's pretty much what the title says. Don't forget to read the fan mail.

Sometimes it's even funny.


Comments (7)
  1. taco says:

    thanks for posting, that was really, really funny

    Suddenly though you start to laugh at everything that can be interpreted in a funny way. For example, on the bottom of this very comment form, it says, in very big black type, "REMEMBER ME?" – kinda intimidating :-)

  2. AG says:

    Thanks for the link!

  3. Thanks! says:

    Awesome!

    There are actually two about Bill Gates, the other one is "Bill Gates didnt get one either"

    http://spamusement.com/index.php/comics/view/26

  4. Norman Diamond says:

    The main page started off with an advertisement for one of those fake spyware cleaners which is probably actual spyware. I can’t quite figure out whether that is funny or isn’t funny.

  5. ChrisR says:

    Hey Norman, is it your life long dream to complain about every single post made by a Microsoft blogger? You are so tiring.

  6. Norman Diamond says:

    Monday, January 16, 2006 10:40 PM by ChrisR

    > Hey Norman, is it your life long dream to

    > complain about every single post made by a

    > Microsoft blogger?

    No, sometimes I complain about other commenters.

    But my previous comment in this case was a comment on the anti-spam blog. At first I laughed when I saw the anti-spam blog contain an advertisement that is likely to install malware (often including spam servers). After a minute I remembered that it’s not funny because so many people fall for such advertisements for fake products. On both counts I was commenting on the occurence of that advertisement in that blog.

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