I don’t have a problem with spam. Most of it gets appropriately filtered. One got through today which surprised me. The title said:

"V1AGRA: Don't stop until she passes out!"

It isn’t the title that surprises me. Instead, it was that it made it through my spam blockers. It has all the characteristics of a normal spam message: HTML encoding with images, a non-friendly from address, and “V1AGRA” in the subject line, but my client still thought it would appeal to me. Editorializing from Mail.app? When I want its opinion I’ll ask for it!

I’ve also noticed that there is a list of “normal” words in the bottom of the email. These aren’t vulgar but seem to have been picked at random from a dictionary. Have spammers wised up to the latent semantic whatever that a lot of email clients use to block span? I should make it clear that just getting spam in my inbox isn’t revolutionary, I get a couple of spam showing up there every day or so (I consider my spam blockers to be doing a good job). What I was worried about is that spammers now may be getting more messages through because they’ve cracked Mail’s spam blocker. That would suck.