Perhaps I do have a dated perception. Think of when we had to filter our own spam with rules, and articles like http://www.pcworld.com/article/111193/stupid_s

Perhaps I do have a dated perception. Think of when we had to filter our own spam with rules, and articles like http://www.pcworld.com/article/111193/stupid_spam_tricks.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/111193/stupid_spam_tricks.htm... were in vogue (link from 2003, 1st link in the search). Note that the first 2 "tricks" this PCWorld article mentions are misspellings and the "bogus" use of "Re:". Maybe I'm still stuck in those days, but I still associate these tricks with spammy mail.