Hello Five7Five;
Recently (or soon, depending on your machine) you may notice several emails which bear a striking resemblance in content, regarding Troubled African Nations and the desire to have your bank account number so that large amounts of funds may be transferred to your account, so that the wealthy class of troubled Africa may hide it away until we reach a safer political clime.
For those who don't know, this is a particular type of spam-mail. This list receives roughly 20 spam mails a day which are caught by a filtration system, which I then have to manually approve. (if you notice a week to month long delay in your poems arriving, it's because your email is associated with spam- you should email me if you are on the list and want this to stop, most notably whoever is writing poems as "David"). Most of this spam is in cyrillic, because a cyrillic spam-hacker signed up our mailing list to another mailing list which was all mailing lists- meaning, for a while, this list would have (had it not been for the filter) subjected to a barrage of posts from about 40 other lists. While I think this may have been ripe with opportunity- including one for "list crashing," which I have always wanted to do (we all sign up to another, non-poetry/etc related mailing list, and write poems until we are removed by the administrator) it also resulted in almost 4000 spam messages in cyrillic and greek, which still linger on.
Anyway, I allowed the Spam Tour of African Nations to go through because someone is actually, at some point, at the origin of these spam mails. Unlike most spam, these are written with some amount of care in an effort to deceive. Rather than appeal to the absolute lowest common denominator of email readers, these spammers seek to bring a little art to their work and seek out the slightly-not-as-low-as-the-lowest common denominator email readers. I find them funny en masse; funnier than as strays; because of their obvious transparent plagiarism of one another. I like to envision a sort of cross-spammer rivalry for most dramatic Troubled African Nation Scam Spam Mail; and then it strikes me as endearing. But also mysterious- who are these people, really? What do they hope to achieve? Do any of them succeed?!.
So, I allowed 6-7 to go through in a one time experiment and may, perhaps, in the future, allow more to come through- consider it a secondary stream for five7five. I'd rather not have people submit their own spam finds, since that could get very annoying, but I will post them as they occur naturally and if I think the timing is right and not overbearing.
Anyway, don't answer them with your bank account number, if you were planning to.
Yours, Eryk Salvaggio Lost Administrator
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