do these guys think we are idiots or what?

[Dan Goncharoff]

Why are e-cards spam? Are greeting cards junk mail? Or just when misspelled?

DanG

On 3/31/2010 9:56 PM, Randy Alexander wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:23 AM, ronbutters<ronbutters at aol.com>  wrote:
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>> I just got a message with the following in the subject line:
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>> You have received a greeding e-card !
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>> Don't think I'll open it.
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> I fail to see the linguistics-related content in this post, unless
> your point is to suggest there is something ironic about spam being
> sent in the form of a "greeding e-card".  Since it's spam, they're
> greedy?
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