I just got spam from my father. If you read my previous blog entry, you know that he's been dead since 1998. As he's been my mind lately, this really made my hair stand on end, to say the least.

Now I know that spammers have figured out how to send spam with the recipient's e-mail address as the "from", but this is ridiculous! Jeff assures me that this is a coincidence. However, Dad had a very unusual first name, and our last name isn't very common either. (A Google search yielded four results - some guy in Iowa in the early 1900's, an employee of a chemical manufacturer, and an art student in Germany.) It's really got me pissed off that hundreds of thousands of people are grumbling about getting spam with my dad's name on it - "Protect Your Computer" - my dad never had a PC! These rat bastards are using Dad's name in vain - and there's nothing I can do to stop them!

Yet another reason why every single spammer should go to Hell and die!