Comments on: Spam http://mochasteak.com/2006/03/17/spam/ The personal blog of Brian Bishop Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:53:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Brian http://mochasteak.com/2006/03/17/spam/comment-page-1/#comment-1719 Brian Mon, 03 Apr 2006 15:03:03 +0000 http://mochasteak.com/2006/03/17/spam/#comment-1719 "Darwinian medicine"? Is that when the medecines all interact and fight with each other over scarce resources and have sex and all and then the strongest medicines kill the weakest medicines? Sounds like a Fox TV special. Might make an interesting reality show though. "Making the Meds". “Darwinian medicine”? Is that when the medecines all interact and fight with each other over scarce resources and have sex and all and then the strongest medicines kill the weakest medicines?

Sounds like a Fox TV special.

Might make an interesting reality show though. “Making the Meds”.

]]> By: Jeff Tripodi http://mochasteak.com/2006/03/17/spam/comment-page-1/#comment-1718 Jeff Tripodi Mon, 03 Apr 2006 05:29:27 +0000 http://mochasteak.com/2006/03/17/spam/#comment-1718 Funny related story: I was in a medical anthropology seminar, and the professor assigned us an article about declining sperm count in Frenchmen over the last 45 years. Our assignment was to analyze the trend through the lens of Darwinian medicine. The next week, he came in and passed back papers to half the class; the other half was nonplussed, adamant that they'd submitted theirs as e-mail attachments, a method the professor encouraged. Turns out the titles of the .doc files -- "Sperm_Count", "French Sperm Study", etc. -- had been flagged and bounced by the university's spam filter. Never one to pass up a punchline, I asked if the next assignment was going to ask us to analyze home refinancing or OEM software. Funny related story: I was in a medical anthropology seminar, and the professor assigned us an article about declining sperm count in Frenchmen over the last 45 years. Our assignment was to analyze the trend through the lens of Darwinian medicine.

The next week, he came in and passed back papers to half the class; the other half was nonplussed, adamant that they’d submitted theirs as e-mail attachments, a method the professor encouraged.

Turns out the titles of the .doc files — “Sperm_Count”, “French Sperm Study”, etc. — had been flagged and bounced by the university’s spam filter.

Never one to pass up a punchline, I asked if the next assignment was going to ask us to analyze home refinancing or OEM software.

]]> By: Jenn http://mochasteak.com/2006/03/17/spam/comment-page-1/#comment-1662 Jenn Sun, 19 Mar 2006 01:49:25 +0000 http://mochasteak.com/2006/03/17/spam/#comment-1662 right on. As I've mentioned on my blog, my favorites are the Nigerian email scammers who concoct elaborate tales of woe to convince you to fork over $10000 of your own money to in turn receive $12 million of theirs. Damn spammers. right on. As I’ve mentioned on my blog, my favorites are the Nigerian email scammers who concoct elaborate tales of woe to convince you to fork over $10000 of your own money to in turn receive $12 million of theirs. Damn spammers.

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