Spam

I've never claimed to understand spam. (And I mean the junk mail kind, not the ham-like meat kind.) Has anyone ever responded to spam? I mean, has this proved to be a worthwhile medium by which to sell products? "Well, I'd never considered a penile enlargement, but now that an anonymous stranger has suggested it.... well, it's a whole new ballgame."

But I still don't understand how they decide to put certain spam in certain inboxes. I have two email addresses. One of them gets the standard prescription medicine and porn ones. But only those two types. My other email address gets only office software programs. What does that mean about me? I don't visit illegal porn or software websites. I don't enter my email addresses into things. I don't even get a lot of spam. I just get four or five emails in a month and they are all streamlined.

How do they do that? And why are they making me paranoid?