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I just had a minor epiphany.

Me and Ash just finished watching Death At A Funeral (hysterically funny comedy, definitely recommended) and sat down for some brief mail/blog-checking before bedtime. Normally this includes wading through tons of spam, dutifully sorted as such by SpamAssassin. I get maybe 700 and up to 1000 spam-emails, so a good server-side spamfilter is really a necessity.

The spam I get consists of the usual nonsense. Nigerian kings claiming to need my help, shady people claiming to be online pharmacies equipped to supply me with drugs to enhance my, well… equipment. You know the drill. One of the more common topics of spam also seem to be software. Or rather, supplying me with high-quality commercial software at bargain discount prices. I’m completely convinced however that these sellers actually sell shitty pirated copies at outrageous prices, but none the less it’s a common theme.

The software offered is almost always the same. Microsoft Office, various Adobe-applications, 3D Studio Max and Autocad. The usual fare.

They also offer me Windows XP, in all kinds of real as well as imagined flavours. But the epiphany was that I’ve never seen one of these crap-emails trying to sell me Vista. I wonder how that might be interpreted?

(admittedly, I don’t spend much time actually reading these emails, so it might be that I missed the torrent of mail trying to sell me Vista. We’ll never know.)

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