do these guys think we are idiots or what?

[Dan Goodman]

If the message doesn't give the name of the card's sender, it's spam for
sure.

Dan Goncharoff wrote:
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> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      Re: do these guys think we are idiots or what?
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> Why are e-cards spam? Are greeting cards junk mail? Or just when misspelled?
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> DanG
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> On 3/31/2010 9:56 PM, Randy Alexander wrote:
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>> Sender:       American Dialect Society<ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>> Poster:       Randy Alexander<strangeguitars at GMAIL.COM>
>> Subject:      Re: do these guys think we are idiots or what?
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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:
>>>
>>>
>>> You have received a greeding e-card !
>>>
>>> Don't think I'll open it.
>>>
>>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Dan Goodman
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