We just passed the thirtieth anniversary of the first unsolicited mass commercial Internet message, ie, spam message.  I did not mention it here or provide a link to it because I did so a year ago on the twenty-ninth anniversary, and there is nothing to say about it so much as “There it is.”  A museum piece.

Today I go to my email inbox, and see a message from a “Greg Chan” with the subject line “I’m In My bedroom wearing nothing.  I want u: at www.”.  A little curious to see if the name matches the nature of the spam, which is to ask am I being sent a url to an address that will get me naked male pictures, or — as I suspect, did the name generator popped out “Greg Chan”?  The url does have a name in it.  Kathy.  The latter.  The spam generators don’t make sense to me… Greg is not sending me naked pictures from his bedroom; Kathy is… theoretically. 

And… delete.

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