Disclaimeritis

Bizarre spammer disclaimers are making a comeback. Here's one that appeared on a spam from an Indian web design company touting for business:

Disclaimer: This is an unsolicited Business-to-Business correspondence. If you are not interested in this matter, you may delete this message without reading it. Please note that we have not purchased your e-mail address from any commercial sources. We have accessed it through primary research on the internet. In case you prefer not to receive any future business communication from us, kindly reply to this email with the subject `REMOVE' in the subject line.

I like the gracious way they authorize the recipient to delete the message without reading it. That's very generous. Unfortunately, they don't explain how you're supposed to delete the message without reading it when the disclaimer is attached to the bottom of said message. Oh, those wacky spammers and their paradoxes. I'm also glad to know that they haven't purchased my email address (“In which case, you're the only one that hasn't, buddy.”) but have obtained it through ‘primary research’. Apparently, I'm supposed to feel better that their spider crawled my site.

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