Another Site Launched - My Daily Spam

I launched another site yesterday called My Daily Spam and I am having a lot of fun with it. Not that I don't have fun writing for MyThermos, or for TechFires, but researching my couple of posts to this new site has already proven to be quite entertaining.

The idea behind this site is to try and find some good from the miserable waste of time and bandwidth that is my real daily spam. I own a couple of domains and have some public email addresses so I get my share of spam, a couple hundred a day. By routing everthing through my gmail accounts I really don't see any of it but I do occasionally go through it to make sure that it isn't filtering out items improperly.

And I am finding that some of it is really funny. The headlines are great. The names are great. The wording is great. So every day I'll dig through (it really doesn't take long) and pick out a favorite to post on My Daily Spam. Like I say there, if you can't stop it, you might as well laugh at it.

I did find some irony in creating the site. I am asking for verified email addresses from people before they can post comments. That's right, I'm collecting email addresses in an effort to minimize my own spam, on my spam site. And I did set up the obligatory feed so you can subscribe in your favorite reader but I did stop short of offering an email subscription, would people really subscribe to get spam in their inbox?

I'm actually thinking that perhaps I can eventually turn this into a resource for spam prevention with articles and such, but for now I'll just stick with sharing the best of My Daily Spam.

Enjoy

SB

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That's a good idea! I've occasionally posted spam I've ran across.

#1 Mike Scott (Homepage) on 2008-01-10 11:01 (Reply)

Nice idea. I study Spam sometimes to get marketing ideas. I'm putting your blog into my daily visits folder.

#2 Colin (Homepage) on 2008-01-10 11:14 (Reply)

Thanks Guys - I think it will be fun and it's an easy post since it's really already written.

I make a point to post it just like I receive it, bad formatting and of course poor spelling intact.

SB

#3 Scott (Homepage) on 2008-01-11 17:02 (Reply)

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