On a separate front, we're waiting patiently for our $20 Million check. This very private and confidential transaction is conducted on behalf of a beleaguered South African family. After receiving about 3,600 pieces of email diligently requesting our help, we finally succumbed. The really good news is that we'll be losing a lot of weight while we wait. Our no-pain diet formula will be arriving by mail as well.

We'll be the skinny, rich, glassy eyed (we ordered herbal viagra, too) fellow.

Thank God for the spam; we'd never have had all of these fantastic opportunities without it.

The funny thing is that the spam mentality is being copied by PR people and marketers from vendors in our industry. From the issuance of press releases to the discussion of new products, form letters are being issued at fast and furious rates. Weirdly, some companies are selling "talent pools" and the tools to bombard them with spam as a recruiting gambit. Their brethren are peddling job board accounts to multi-level marketing schemes.