Heh!

Yes - there is such thing as a meme with ten questions. Ten things you hate, no less! Lol.

1. Chain letters!

Moving on. :P

I got the weirdest looking spam today. Mailwasher blacklisted it, but I decided to look at the full header before processing my mail and having it deleted.

The laughable thing is that the From line looks like this:

From: "Anti-fraud support" ebanking@bxs.com

Uh-huh!

Reply-To: cas@bmstech.com.sg

the "View complete header" in Mailwasher is very useful, it's a good way of being sure an email you received is actually spam so you can blacklist it.

If there's html at the beginning of the message, it gets displayed without doing any damage, it's not like opening and email and clicking on a link to malware.

But this spam message's html is laughable too.

font-family: Veranda;

It's "Verdana" genius!

Must've been a hoaxter/chain letter originator who came up with this idea, you know how many of them can't type or spell.

And yes, the spammer got blacklisted! They'll keep getting blacklisted every time they try to send me anything.

Why Give In to Memes?

Hmmm.

 

Apparently there's this sickness hitting the blogosphere, a new form of chain letter called a 'meme'

 

It involves tagging, getting tagged, and answering eight seemingly random questions. Like those agonizingly annoying chain email surveys that ask you a million seemingly random, and completely pointless, forgetable questions to pass around to all your friends. The memes are shorter with eight seeming to be the number of questions always, though there might eventually be a faze 2 meme that says the amount of questions must be a different number.

 

Well - what I'm now about to ask is - if bloggers know it's a chain letter, and they don't usually participate in chain letters, and some claim even to dislike chain letters, why the heck make exceptions for memes!? I've seen the excuses for doing them, and none of them wash. C'mon people. If you don't like 'em, why do 'em?

 

Repeat after me, folks:

 

I will not get cursed for not participating in a meme. I will continue to have a normal life and my blog will still be here tomorrow. I am no less a person for failing to participate in and pass on a meme than I am for rejecting all other forms of chain letter.