Unhappy Birthday

According to ABCNEWS.com, this past weekend marked the 30th "birthday" of email spam. Let us wish this nuisance a hearty Unhappy Birthday.

Personally, I'd far rather be attending a wake or memorial service for email spam. We'd all be able to sit around, maybe have a few drinks, and reminisce about all those get-rich-quick opportunities from wealthy bank scammers, those male-enhancement ads (particularly the ones sent to women), the endless opportunities to refinance with NO CREDIT WORRIES, the innumerable sales of foreign and/or phony drugs...the list goes on. And, after waxing nostalgic, we could bury the damned stuff. Permanently. And go home and get on with our lives, spam-free forever.

No, alas - email spam will live on. It will probably outlive us all. I wonder if, 70 years from now, someone will be writing about the hundredth birthday of this garbage.