Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 20:29:01 -0500
From: Rebecca Mercuri" <notable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Amber Alert, Coming to the Inbox Nearest You
The latest in the spam wars -- Amber Alert! This one promises to clog your
email box with photos of children who may or may not have vanished, probably
for years even after they've (hopefully) been found. It's so much more
convincing than those "estate of Nigerian millionaire deposit account"
messages. Makes you nearly want to cry. Hey, if it was my kid, I'd spam
the universe. But it's still spam. So when you reply to the sender (who is
inevitably going to be some kindhearted soul that you know who received this
from a long chain of other friends whose email addresses they've included to
prove it's "authentic") with a "this is spam" message you're just going to
appear to be heartless. There's no good way out of this one other than to
immediately redirect all messages with the subject phrase "Amber Alert" into
your trashbin, pray you never need to do this for your own kid or someone
you really do know FIRSTHAND, and don't look back.
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