Here are some email stupidities that happened to me over the last few weeks:

Spam and Chain Mail
I was so tired with chain mail that when I received the Microsoft + AOL chain mail (see below), I fired back an inflamatory email. Here is the whole email record:

The chain email, click to enlarge¹

my reply, click to enlarge

I sent this to everyone on the chain mail (BCC’d to 331 email addresses). And guess what? The hit counts for this blog and math-art.net actually jumped! The normalized hit counts of both blogs jumped about 90 unique hits on the next morning, and this spike tapered off over the following 3 days (±180 uniques in spike)².

I see now that I have underestimated the powaaaaaaaaaar of spam email marketing campaigns (we must be PC nowadays). Spam Email marketing campaigns actually do work, and in my case, I can say I am 90% certain that 55% of the people actually fall for such stupidity. Who says there isn’t an incentive to spam email-market your products?

JetStar
JetStar sent me this email on flight offers.

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Okay, this isn’t JetStar’s fault. I just find it funny that the surcharge and other charges are actually waaaaay more expensive than the flight ticket.

SpamTube YouTube
Look at that image, and try to spot YouTube. ’nuff said:

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You’d think that YouTube, now owned by Google would have great spam fighting techniques (like in Gmail), but no… YouTube is full of spam. ARGGGGGHHHH!

Right. Now that I know that spamming people’s mailbox works, I’m starting to think… hmmm mailing lists of stupid people. That’d sound great. MUHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHAAA!!! Yea, I’m evil, ain’t I?

Footnotes

1. if you really believed that I know whether someone has read the mail or not, you’d have to be one of the most gullible person alive. No, I can’t embed hidden trackers within the email. And all the threats are empty threats, but many people on that list happen to be also on other religious (I get spammed by all religions) mailing lists and chain emails, so any references to souls and sins is to pander to their religious fears [↩]
2. I talied the referral hits that came from mailservers, and compared it to my normalized referral data. Data is normalized by means of weighted moving average(I think it’s called that). I take the 7-day moving average, the p.d.f. of unique hits and weight each unique hit with a combined weight to make the p.d.f. normal. Despite what Nassim Taleb says, I still like the Gaussian Curve [↩]

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