I received an email today that was automatically filtered to my junk mail folder. I go through this folder before I empty it, just to make sure that something that is obviously legitimate didn’t get filtered. Occasionally, I find myself bored, and I will sometimes read a junk email or two.
Today, I had the good fortune of reading one ostensibly from abbigale@earthlink.com. Abbigale was polite enough to write me a one word email. The email?
shagface
That’s it. No image. No non-English characters. No misshapen hyperlink. One word: shagface. What in the hell is that? Who arranges a spam bot to send this one word email to hundreds, or thousands or more, addresses on an email list? And why? What in the hell is “shagface”? Is Abbigale calling me a “shagface”? Are there some oral sex under-or-over tones I’m supposed to be getting here?
The Internet is a beautiful place. What other place could you be where someone drops by, looks you in your face, and simply says “shagface”?