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Meredith Schwartz ([personal profile] stakebait) wrote2004-05-04 08:07 pm

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What erudite spam I get lately!

Subject lines:

"Annie, Few things are impossible to diligence and skill."

"Cate, The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas"

"Britton, Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."

I feel impelled to open them, and quite guilty for being neither Annie nor Cate, much less Britton. But once I do, they're selling Viagra. Are they trying to tap into the under-served literary women's market for erectile drugs? And why is a person with as charming a screen name as "amiable" trying to sell me mortgages under the cryptic subject heading "bernice"?

Mer

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