Political Calculations
October 18, 2007

Spam Alert! Spam is a fact of life for just about anybody who has an e-mail address. Like most people who are compelled to fight against the endless stream of mindless e-mail messages, we have continuously sought to strain it from our in-boxes before finally clicking it out of existence. Who could really take these messages seriously?

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And so, instead of automatically deleting the contents of our spam filter, we decided to go through the assortment of 167 pieces of spam that have accumulated since we deleted the filter's contents earlier today and pick five that we'll reward by acknowledging the needs of the spammer behind the spam here on our blog. As we type this, we sense that 168 spammers might feel their world is, suddenly and somehow, a statistically better place. Make that 169....

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