Anyone who has an e-mail address receives spam. Depending on your filtering methods, you may see very little of it, or you may see a lot.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week I received a message from Kevin Kline. He was trying to interest me in some thing or the other. I don’t recall, exactly. What I do recall is a sadness that the spammers have taken to appropriating the names of actors whose work I enjoy.<\/p>\n
Today I received a spam message from Jesus. And in a twist sure to offend everyone offended by The da Vinci Code<\/i>, Jesus has gender-identity issues. Let’s quote from the message, shall we?<\/p>\n I am a nice prebtty girl. Don’t reply to this emaila. Email me daireclty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I suppose the poor spelling can be forgiven–Jesus spoke Aramaic (presuming he existed, of course), so English would be a foreign language to him. But even allowing for that, Jesus is a girl?!? Christianity must be quaking at its very core. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anyone who has an e-mail address receives spam. Depending on your filtering methods, you may see very little of it, or you may see a lot. Earlier this week I received a message from Kevin Kline. He was trying to interest me in some thing or the other. I don’t recall, exactly. What I doContinue reading “On Receiving Unwanted Spam”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[441,494],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","tag-e-mail","tag-spam","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}