A bit of R&R
Man. Loves. His. Spam. No really.
Some choose Yoga, others choose a glass of wine and a soak
in a hot bath, and some, apparently, choose reading spam as
their preferred method of unwinding from the stresses of the
working day.
It was with some disbelief that VB read, in the Wall Street
Journal (http://www.wsj.com/), about a 45-year-old New
Yorker who likes to receive spam. The behaviour described
seemed (to VB) so unthinkable that the piece read more like
satire than an article in a respected news journal — according
to the WSJ the gentleman in question spends hundreds of
dollars a week making spam-related purchases, claiming
that spam helps him ‘lose the stress of the day’ and even
goes as far as to say that ‘good spam ... leaves [him] feeling
blessed’. With a recent survey by anti-spam company
MailShell finding that eight per cent of respondents had
bought products via spam, one wonders whether the
problem is being approached from the wrong angle.
Perhaps, rather than concentrating solely on those who send
spam, attention should be turned to those who perpetuate the
problem by responding to it …
21 March 2004
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