Month: June 2003

I’m not sure I understand why spammers sometimes change the date of their e-mail so that it goes to the back of someone’s in-box. For instance, just today I received two messages that appeared to come from both January and February of last year. Do they think that if I don’t see the message right away, I’ll be less inclined to delete it? Do they think that I’ll at some point accidentally sort my e-mail in reverse order and decide I just have to open their message because it’s the first one I see? Do they think I’ll actually believe it arrived when it says it did and that it wasn’t deleted then because I wanted to keep it, much less follow through and send them money?

Or (and I now realize this is probably closer to the truth), are they just too stupid to figure out how to change the time and date settings on their own computers?

Sharon suggests: “Post another update about the mix exchange.”

So, okay: I’m having a mix exchange. If you’re interested, let me know.

So far, Sharon, Nyssa, Remi, and Rob have expressed interest in burning CDs and mailing them out. As Sharon indicates, both she and I are just about ready. So here’s how this will work:

Anyone who wants to participate but doesn’t already have my mailing address (and isn’t a deranged stalker, please), write me and I’ll send it to you. Also, let me know if you only want to swap mixes with me, or if you want to share CDs with the whole group. The former is no doubt easier and cheaper, but the latter sounds like more fun, and I’m perfectly willing to act as the middleman if you don’t feel like sharing your address with (other) strangers. If you only want to send out one mix, that’s fine, but that means you’ll only get one mix in return. Once I get a definite count of who’s sharing with everybody (right now it’s a vague five, with Jon Kilgannon‘s online mp3 mix possibly somewhere tossed in), I’ll let you know how many copies to send, with at least a rough estimate on postage. Then, as Sharon says, all you have to do is “wait for goodies to arrive”.

In today’s Salon, there’s a quote from Jerry Lewis concerning Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks. Lewis told the NY Daily News:

I’m old-fashioned. You don’t make fun of the Queen of England, and you don’t make jokes about the President of the United States. I resent those that do. The Dixie Chicks are embarrassed that he’s from Texas? You don’t say that about a sitting President. The First Amendment says you can say anything you want in this country, but it should have an appendage, ‘Try to do it with class.’

This is, of course, the same Jerry Lewis who said, “A woman doing comedy doesn’t offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.”

You know, there was a point, once upon a time, when the man was funny.