Electronic Snowball Effect

With every new e-mail address comes what I like to call "The crescendo of spam".

At first, you get no spam. As long as your e-mail address goes unentered to websites, it's probably safe. But then you need to enter your e-mail for something. And you do. Or if you don't, yahoo or hotmail or whoever you have service with will probably sell it.


Once you're on a list, that's the beginning of the end. You can't get off of the lists, and they'll only be sold to more and more people. Your only hope is to have gmail or yahoo, or something else with a solid filter on it.

So the spam starts out harmless enough, or as harmless as spam can be. It's marketing surveys and website ads, that usually have a way to unsubscribe.

The next batch isn't so bad either. Cheap prescriptions, dating websites, home loans and free credit checks. None with a way to unsubscribe.

Then comes the enhancement crowd. A bigger penis, breasts and ass all rolled into one convenient pill.

After that starts the malicious stuff. Phishing, royalty from Nigeria,
free PS3s, and foreign lottery winnings. Fake jobs and relitives and charities. It's sick. The audacity of these people is unbelievable.


The malicious stuff never stops comming. The other spam may die out after you mark it all for deletion, but the really bad stuff keeps comming.


Then, after a while, there is a chance you can slip onto the 'dirty list'. The weirdest and most god awful porn you could imagine. It makes two girls one cup look like a romantic comedy. You're stuck with this forever, too. It's so gross, I don't even like to see the titles in my spam box as I hit delete all. In fact, what spurred this educational romp was an e-mail in my gmail account spam box titled "barely legal girl fucked raw by farm animals". In less subtle terms, of course.

Spam is something we've lived with since the internet started to get popular, but hopefully someone who is smarter and much more knowlageable about e-mail than I will come up with a better solution than spam filters.