Friday, 10 August 2007

spam! spam! spam! spam!


I loved this feature in The New Yorker a couple of days ago:




Damn Spam: The losing war on junk email is well-written, well-researched (the writer tells us what was the first-ever spam email), has lots of strong quotes - and even segues to an eighteenth-century British clergyman!


It's something I would've been proud to write and have published.


There's a big difference between writing something like this for a popular magazine, and writing any old thing that comes into your head.

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