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>I just looked at my spam folder. I'm regularly being offered dental supplies, large hydraulic sheet metal bending presses, and ammonium sulfate fertilizer. It
by joecool1029 4y ago
>I just looked at my spam folder. I'm regularly being offered dental supplies, large hydraulic sheet metal bending presses, and ammonium sulfate fertilizer. It seems that having your own domain now means you get mostly business-to-business spam. I subscribe to Machine Design, which gets me some heavy industrial marketing, but I have no idea why I get dental supply ads. The fertilizer spams, from China, look like a scam - there's a fertilizer shortage, so that's a spam which might get replies.
I used to have a 'Shirley' email all the time from China about elevator parts. It was such a niche kind of spam that I eventually replied and requested pictures of a bunch of parts. They sent them!
- thaumasiotes 4y ago> I used to have a 'Shirley' email all the time from China about elevator parts. It was such a niche kind of spam that I eventually replied and requested pictures of a bunch of parts. They sent them! https://web.archive.org/web/20030412191437/http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2001/20011231l.gif https://web.archive.org/web/20030412191437/http://www.penny-...
- dhosek 4y agoI remember in grad school, one of my classmates being upset about getting a porn spam email in Chinese and saying, “but don’t they know that I’m a girl?” I pointed out to her that I got the same emails (but had no idea what they were saying) and explaining to her that they send them to everybody.