Spam is the scourge of the Internet age. I get one legitimate comment on this blog for every five spam comments, and only about one in 100 emails is legitimate. There are sometimes useful things like grasshopper tobacco cures cancer, miracle weight loss with urban sunflowers, and how to make yourself irresistible to women drivers. On the other hand, I hate Dr. Oz and even if a “Flex Able” hose is the “end all” for garden hoses, I would never buy one. Then there are the emails from DHL telling me there’s a problem with my package. I assume they are euphemistic male enhancement emails. But the spam messages that really get me are the ones notifying me I’ve been inducted, or more like abducted, into the “Who’s Who of Professional Women!” I’m not sure when I became an honorary woman, but I’m told I’m a “Who” among them according to the daily emails. I guess I have no standing as a professional man since I have never received a notice of being a “Who” among men. As much as I mark these spam mails as spam, they just come double or triple — one or more to my in-box and the rest to my spam filter — keeping me lost in spam.
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Gorgeous sunflowers with the clouds!
Tim, until your comment tonight I thought only women had the problem of being addressed as a member of the wrong sex. I recently received a legal contract addressed as Louis Brandt.
I suspect part of the reason is because I buy clothes and makeup on line for Laurie, and then get promo mail from all these women’s clothing and makeup websites.
When I worked at OU I was the only woman on the faculty in Botany-Microbiology and unsolicited mail nearly always came Dr Louis Brandt (I only had a Master) I assume in the recent letter, envelope and contract addressed Mr Louis Brandt they could not conceive of a woman owning a home without some man as the owner in reality.
Congrats on your great honor!
Start ordering women’s underwear, and you will probably get the honor of becoming a “Who” among women professionals. Didn’t DHL recently discover problems with your package, as well?