Unpredictable. Unfocused. Just like life.

When I was a kid we actually ate SPAM, the canned meat product from Hormel. Gourmet it wasn't, but it was a decent meal. The internet brought a new, and very unpleasant, kind of spam - in the form of unwanted email. And it now seems to me anyway that spam comprises the bulk of email that I receive.

My spam filter is quite good, so there are literally hundreds of messages each day that I don't have to see. But there are some that get through, the most common lately being stock scams promotions. Now really, if you have to fool me into getting a message about a stock, how stupid would I have to be to actually invest in it?

Other spam makes absolutely no sense to me. This for example:

Hi iamjustsendingthisleter. How are you ? Call me. load their

I don't get it. There is no ad, no reason at all. What could the point be?

And lately I seem to be getting a whole bunch of undeliverable mail. Someone has obviously forged the sender address to be a made up email address purportedly from me, ostensibly to send someone else spam.

Does this really generate revenue? Do people actually pay to get their message out this way? To waste my time? To comsume huge amounts of bandwidth for no useful purpose?

There are those that advocate capital punishment for spammers. I think we should just sentence them to a lifetime of receiving spam themselves.