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One of my ongoing questions is why the fuck companies continue to send me spam even though I am very, very guarded as to who I give my main e-mail address to.

I’ve often wondered if companies that I do business with (and whom I have listed the address with) sell it. I imagine that many of them do. Most of them have little clauses in their privacy policy that say something like “We occasionally share our customer information with companies we believe our customers may be interested in” which is corporate legal mumbo-fucko for “We sell your email address to any company willing to pay for it, fucknuts.” I know this, because I collect email addresses from people as part of my job. I know those addresses get resold. Hell, the company I work for is so busy tripping over dollars, picking up dimes that I am certain that if they could find a company interested in paying money for a general breakdown of hair color amongst employees, we would be getting mandatory hair color surveys within the week.

However, a new affront to decency breached my inbox today. I give my e-mail address to the people I know in real life pretty freely, never really thinking much about it. I usually assume that the people I give it to won’t sign me up for spam. However, one of those people saw fit to put my e-mail address in a “HEY GIVE US EMAILS TO SPAM AND WE’LL THINK ABOUT GIVING YOU FREE SHIT, BUT NOT REALLY (SUCKER)” offer he saw on the ‘Net. So that means I’m going to be getting yet more spam.

To the person who decided I am spam-worthy: If I meet you in person again, asshole, I will be delivering one fist-sized thank you to your face for every single e-mail I recieve that I can prove was due to your negligence.