Well, today marks a new day in Spam technology. Let me tell you what I mean.
I was lucky enough to receive a message giving me advance access to a brand new underground college magazine. How great?! But wait, it gets better. The sender obviously realized that people are wising up to spam and can spot it more quickly. So, to throw me off the scent, they addressed me as an old friend: Bill. Seeing how my name is William, that makes obvious sense. Except, no! My friends call me Will, thank you very much.
It appears that the spammers creation of a trivial formal to informal name translation function has backfired. Any email I receive that is addressed to "Bill" will be immediately marked as spam.
What losers!
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