Spam Blam

In my first Netflix wrap-up posting, I invited fellow Netflix users to join my network of Netflix Friends. In that posting, I included my email address with spaces around the "@" symbol, as I had thought that doing so would prevent automated web spiders from grabbing my address and adding it to spam lists. Well, apparently that old trick doesn't work any more. Unless it's just a coincidence, I've gradually begun getting increasingly more spam over the past couple of weeks. Then when I checked my email this morning before heading off to work, I discovered that I have received more than 100 junk mail messages over just the past two days. It's a good thing my email program has a pretty decent junk mail filter.

Although it's a pretty much too late now to make any difference, I've removed my address from that previous posting. Oh well. You live, you learn.