Spam, a birthday not to celebrate

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Few of us have opened our mailboxes each day without being greeted with the sight of the bastardised word above, or something similar, yet another offer of a penis enlargement, the best 'no strings hot sex' we are ever going to experience or a life changing chance to purchase the aforementioned blue pill or other pharmaceutical wonder, at a knock down price!

Spam...the bane of the internet 'celebrates' it's birthday today, it's fifteen years since the phrase was first coined and thirty years since the first spam message went off on it's merry way into cyberspace. It still accounts for 99% of all email messages sent, it still slows down the proceedings the internet is supposed to be used for and the guys on the wrong end of it still manage to find ways to circumnavigate attempts to stop it!

What amazes me is that presumably, if it remains so prevalent it must still be economically viable for those that use it as a medium for advertising. The fact that they do use it doesn't surprise me one iota, where there is money to be extorted there is always someone ready step in. What does confound me though is that the very fact that it is viable must mean that recipients of this scourge must continue reading and responding to it in numbers vast enough for that to be the case!

It's a little like prostitution in that no one ever admits to availing themselves of the service but by definition they must....and in considerable numbers!