Hormel

I'm thankful. And grateful. To Google.

Sure, they DO apparently crawl through my Gmail account mailbox, looking for better ways to advertise specifically to me (and still, many times, come up laughably wrong). But, they also have an excellent spam filtering service that only on RARE occasion filters a real email. And at my Gmail account, I DO get spam. TONS of spam. Since late last night, when I emptied the spam box, it has already refilled itself with 60 (check that... 61) more spam messages.

Every now and then, I do enjoy looking through the spam box to see all the many and creative ways that spammers have come up with to try to get me to open their email messages. "Re: Grandma's will", "Did you get the check I sent you?", "re: job application", "Policy change: please open", "Use Twitter... earn cash", and who could forget the multitude of "Increase your manhood".

So apparently, there are three main questions that most people ask before opening an email:

"Oh, it says 'RE': did I get an email back from someone?"

"Am I missing out on money or a way to earn money?"

and

"Oh, is a very legitimate-looking foreign pharmacy interested in helping me with my love life?"

So... thanks Google, for filtering my spam. Because although I enjoy the occasional jaunt through Spamland, most of the time I just don't want to see it.