Two brief questions

[mrissa]

Why do these spammers keep wishing me a happy northwest? I keep getting "Happy NW [name]" subject lines. Does NW mean something dirty I'm not familiar with? Please enlighten me if so. Nubile wenches? That's the best I can do.

coffeeem asked her lj readers to say what they like about themselves, and the results are interesting. I am a little bemused, however, that buymeaclue took time out to specifically agree with mine. ("I am stubborn and fierce.") I mean, it is true, but others of you had blatantly true ones, too, so why me? Is it that worthy of chiming in on that front?

Comments

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

I've thought (and I think said) the same on at least one occasion, and it pleased me to see that I wasn't the only one thinkin' it was a good thing.

(Also, there were only a very few other people in the thread that I know well enough to comment on re: accuracy, and I got distracted reading down the list.)

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

No idea of the source of "Happy NW" spam, but it was a topic of discussion at the Minn-StF New Year's party. It's apparently quite common. Either one very active spammer, or else possibly a new spamming package that makes it easy to configure that way for whatever reason.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Nubile wenches? That's the best I can do.
In my opinion, one could do a lot worse. :)

Is it that worthy of chiming in on that front?
For someone who seems to consider herself and her people to be fairly understated, you have a very vibrant and eye catching personality. I think that perhaps truths about how you think imprint themselves very deeply on your surroundings without your intent.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

One might be able to do a lot worse, but I have zero interest in wenches, nubility notwithstanding.

My personality is like the walls of my office! maybe?

[markgritter.livejournal.com]

I assume it's supposed to be Happy NY but the spammer couldn't be bothered to fix his typo.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Now that's sad.

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[dd-b.livejournal.com]

That's a theory I haven't heard expressed; but it makes at least as much sense as any *other* theory so far. Spamming is an amazingly sad activity, it turns out.

[aet.livejournal.com]

Yes, spamming is much less interesting than one imagines it to be.

When spam was still another exotic foreign thing I used to be fascinated with it. For example, the cooperation of doctors and seamstresses I believed I had found - for a while the letters titled "Enlarge your penis!" and "Do you not fit in your trousers any more?" always arrived in pairs into my inbox. The only cultural confusion that I had was wondering why someone would need a penis big enough not to fit into the old trousers ...

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Obviously, the spam was from the trouser industry.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I think we're supposed to read it as Happy NY, but the spammer is thinking that if they misspell NY - on the v1agra principle - they'll duck the filters...

[fredcritter.livejournal.com]

Yes, that was the theory I'd independently arrived at. You be one smart guy!

[scottro.livejournal.com]

I'm getting a ton of those "Happy NW" spams too. Enough to add a rule to my spam filter. Very annoying.

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