In an effort to avoid spam filters, spam mail is getting more and more abstract. I’m getting things like “make your machine run better”, which confused me the first time I saw it, as it sounded like it was pushing computer hardware upgrades at first glance.

Anyway, if this trend continues, pretty soon they’ll start saying things like “Y your X in the Z!” That would be awesome.

This doesn’t always work well, though. For instance, I just got an email from a diploma mill stating “Bachel0rs, mast3rs, MBA, or D0ctorate”. Anyone who is stupid enough to respond to an email that’s afraid to print the word “Bachelors” in full deserves what he gets.