Spammed By Mom
from the it-will-never-end dept
It's amazing how many times I've heard this same story, either written up online or from friends. It's terrible to say, but often the worst spammers we know, are our own mothers (story only available at reg. required LA Times site right now). I know a few friends who have had to put their foot down and tell their mothers to never email them again if anything in the email was a "forwarded" message of any kind. For the record, I'll say that my mother (and my grandmother) has never been the sort of person to do such a thing (I've trained her well...). However, the writer of this article says that he can't bring himself to confront his mother - and I imagine many people have that sort of issue. Of course, if she's like most mothers, won't she read this column? In the meantime, though, he's debating other options, including spamming her back.
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True, but....
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So true
The amount of times, my mother has sent me (and her circle of friends) dubious instructions to delete half their Windows system folder...
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MY MOTHER IS CEO of the SPAM Corporation !
Please feel free to send all your FWD'd spam to my Mom @ DandLGooding@Suscom.net ...
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I got lucky
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Asking a client to stop...
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Not Mom but......
Just thinking of you... have a great day!
Isn't that why we have phones?
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