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	Celebrating Spam Why Exactly?

rgrcabbage

4-25-2008 2:38 PM

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spam, stupid

rgrcabbage says:

So apparently we're somewhere around the advent of the very first SPAM message and it's important to know that. I'm not sure why, but hey, might as well pass it on. More importantly, if you want to properly celebrate I have thousands of spam messages that Gmail kindly filters for me that I can pass on to those celebrators, ahem, victims.

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