…and shot. Actually, I’ve never really had a lot of trouble with spam. Oh sure, I get just as many requests for money transfers, offers for breast or penial implants, or just plain gibberish, as the next person, but I have a pretty laid-back way of dealing with it. I have a couple of junk e-mails I use for pretty much anything: signing on to forums, purchasing items on line, that sort of thing. I never check that mail except at the time of registration or purchase, and never with a POP mail program (i.e. only strictly with a web-mail service). My personal e-mail is just that… personal. Of course, that doesn’t stop the brute-force spammers who have probably already tried every permutation of an e-mail address possible.

At least that’s how I use to operate. Now that I’ve been running my own mail server for a couple of years now, I recently installed some technology to combat the luncheon meat. It’s been working so well, I’ve redirected all my e-mail through it. I’ve even managed to reclaim some old addresses I haven’t used in years because they’ve been so bogged down with spam.

Now when the odd spam gets through (ahem), I almost look forward to it. Gives me something to do. I could use this as a basis for a Master’s Thesis whenever I get back to school.

On a related note, is it “penial” or “penile?” My dictionaries seem to imply both are correct, but Mac OS X seems to only like “penile.”