Spam Spam Spam

I decided to run a little experiment this week. On Thursday morning, after logging into my primary email account and replying to last nights messages, I cleared my BULK folder. For non-Yahoo users, the BULK folder is where unwanted emails are filtered to, before being deleted. Unwanted emails are more commonly known as SPAM.

Anyway, it's been five days without manually emptying my Bulk folder and I currently have 554 emails in that folder. It doesn't take genius to figure out that I am getting over 100 unwanted emails a DAY. Most of them are, naturally, sexual in nature. Some mortgage offers, debt consolidation, games, and RAZOR cell phones, but mostly sex.

Chicks masturbating on their webcams, well yes, I can see why I am being sent those offers. Milfs? Strippers? Hot Asians? OK, I can imagine why they are sending that sort of material to me.

What I can't understand is where the folks who produce animal porn, fat chick porn, she male porn, and cartoon porn keep getting my address!!! And really, how effective is this sort of marketing in this day and age? Between search engines, blogs, message boards, MySpace and file sharing programs, how many people actually follow up on offers they get via spammed email?

If I wanted to find porn to satisfy my kinks, I can find whatever I want in a few keystrokes. And even if I was following up on the offers coming into my Inbox, I get over 100 a day! I wouldn't have the time to follow-up on them, even if wanted to!!!

And just so you know, while I wrote this piece, I got two more spam emails.