A careful look inside new spam quarantine

We recently switched to a new spam filter, so those of us who had blissfully trusted the previous one now must sift through the new quarantine every day to rescue an inevitable handful of false positives from the hundreds of pieces of actual spam.

I had no idea I was missing out on so much sex.

The exercise, while tedious, has also had its moments of amusement, curiosity, and – dare I say it – temptation. A few examples of the subject lines:

Why Amish Have Perfect Hearing

Now this was the first time I had ever heard that the Amish have perfect hearing and I would tend to believe that it’s a rural legend. Nevertheless, my first uneducated guess was that it would have to have something to do with the their buggies being quieter than our cars. I was tempted to click on the link, but only briefly.

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