Spam at work is boring and clogs your in-box. Especially in this workplace.

Course, most of the spam here is internal, sent by moronic idiots people clicking “Reply All” rather than just “Reply”.

I’ve sent a few mail responses (to all just to make the point) since I started here, highlighting – if sarcastically – this habit. For example, in response to an enthusiastic announcement to all-and-sundry that a particular application had been completed, I responded-to-all thus:

Waytogo! I’m so impressed I’ll let everyone know!

Yesterday, one of the big bosses wrote a message asking that people don’t click what I am now calling The SPAM button.

However, it has been ignored by all.

Today, I got bored with clicking delete repeatedly (I’m getting RSI of the forefinger as a result of this), and as tempting as it is to write a message to all dripping sarcasm and pointing-out my current forefinger injury, it seemed far easier (and very Lisa 4.0) to create a catch-all mail rule, which I am calling Team [MYCOMPANY] SPAM.

And it works… oh it works… and in the last 30 seconds it’s grabbed 5 incoming messages.

Finally, something that MS Outlook can actually do without crapping-out.

These guys are one of the biggest advertisements for what’s wrong with religion.

Rabid, fundamentalist… not muslim… christians who’d put a bullet in you if they could get away with it.

Like Douglas Adams said:

“…nearly 2,000 years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change…”

Where exactly is the message of “the great white saviour” (middle-eastern origin, but don’t let that be an impediment to the Jesus-is-a-white-man industry) in the Westboro Baptist Church? Cast not the first stone, anyone?

Hah.

Things I find daft:

Phonetic spelling of M.C.

I used to work for a company I nicknamed “Senseless”.

They have the following tagged onto the bottom of every single email they send out:

Sensless. Australia’s leading information resource.

Making complex lives simpler by helping you find, buy and sell.

www.Sensless.com.au – www.yellow.com.au – www.whitepages.com.au – www.citysearch.com.au
- www.about.Sensless.com.au
www.whereis.com.au – www.gostay.com.au – www.justlisted.com.au – www.tradingpost.com.au
- www.linkme.com.au
www.carshowroom.com.au – www.telstra.com.au – www.smallbusiness.Sensless.com.au
- www.universalpublishers.com.au

Sensless cares for the environment – think before you print.

This email and any attachments are intended only for the use of the
recipient and may be confidential and/or legally privileged.
Sensless Pty Ltd disclaims liability for any errors, omissions,
viruses, loss and/or damage arising from using, opening or
transmitting this email.
If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, interfere
with, disclose, copy or retain this email and you should notify the
sender immediately by return email or by contacting Sensless Pty Ltd
by telephone on [+61 3 8888 8888]

Liike *anyone* reads this crap these days? It’s so Web 0.1!

This statement though makes me larf:

Senseless cares about the environment

No they don’t. Otherwise they wouldn’t be printing massive phone books that no-one actually uses and sticking all the crap on the end of email that ends up making a 1 page email conversation 3 and a half if it was ever printed.

Morons.