Spamalicious Q. Mailinglist

Although my carefully-protected "real" email address gets nearly no spam at all (do you hear me knocking on wood, here?) my old NCAR address gets an astonishing quantity. Despite it being completely inactive for four years, when I started work there again and reactivated the old ilana@ucar.edu address, it was immediately overwhelmed with on the order of 25 spammails a day.

I've cut down on nearly all of it with vicious filtration; since all my social email goes to my personal address, my filters are brutal and mostly effective. (So far, I've only tossed one "real" email in six months.)

But today I got seven mostly-identical spammails that slipped through the filter. And I have to say, I was mightily amused by the "From" names, which were either randomly generated, or more likely sort-of-randomly generated. Today I got mail from:

Gradation P. Romania
Iran H. Unpolluted
Communism B. Stoker
Exigencies G. Lineup
Quinine L. Hazy
Glinting Q. Formalize
Telecasted C. Albany

Aren't those wonderful names? I'm practically jealous. Maybe I'll change my name.

Yours,
Glinting