Spam as educational material?
Now, I hate spam as much as the next guy, but I paused when seeing the one below in my preview pane.
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If a man do not give a dowry to his daughter by a concubine, and no husband; if then her father die, her brother shall give her a dowry according to her father's wealth and secure a husband for her.
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(Insert standard spam crap here)
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For to thy sensual fault I bring in sense,
Let no unkind, no fair beseechers kill,
Mark how with my neglect I do dispense.
My verse alone had all thy gentle grace,
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Intrigued, I did a little research. Because of this annoying email that came out of the blue, I reacquainted myself with Hammurabi's Code and read for the first time Shakespeare's Sonnets 35, 135, 112, and 129.
If I actually received more of this "high-quality" spam, I might actually pay more than the 2 seconds' worth of attention it takes to delete them. Still wouldn't buy anything, but it's an interesting way to read about stuff I wouldn't have come across another way.
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If a man do not give a dowry to his daughter by a concubine, and no husband; if then her father die, her brother shall give her a dowry according to her father's wealth and secure a husband for her.
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(Insert standard spam crap here)
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For to thy sensual fault I bring in sense,
Let no unkind, no fair beseechers kill,
Mark how with my neglect I do dispense.
My verse alone had all thy gentle grace,
***
Intrigued, I did a little research. Because of this annoying email that came out of the blue, I reacquainted myself with Hammurabi's Code and read for the first time Shakespeare's Sonnets 35, 135, 112, and 129.
If I actually received more of this "high-quality" spam, I might actually pay more than the 2 seconds' worth of attention it takes to delete them. Still wouldn't buy anything, but it's an interesting way to read about stuff I wouldn't have come across another way.