As this blog has grown in popularity so has the amount of email, I have dealt with spam by unsubscribing to email lists I never signed up for, or sent a reply after receiving several emails that I really have no use for – but just the other day I kind of lost my cool.
You see, the Pomegranate gourmet kosher food store in Brooklyn decided to hire a rather aggressive PR firm to send out their emails announcing events that the average person cares nothing about in hopes that these average people will write about them or pass them along. After receiving several of these, I decided to start asking to be taken off the list, I asked multiple times and was still sent mail every week until I decided to respond that I would be calling the Attorney Generals office if they did not remove me from their list.
The response from the PR representative who will remain unnamed, was:
“don’t take yourself so seriously”
I was hurt by this response, she could have said, sorry for the inconvenience or you will be removed, but that’s not right.
So I responded in kind that I was sick of all her F— bullshit emails and told her she can go F herself – a bit harsh I know, but it just felt right.
What prompted this all out attack on spam, specifically Jewish spam?
Well, I noticed that multiple times per day I was receiving requests to join the Facebook fan page “Yeshiva Bound”, it wasn’t one request every once in a while, it was this constant, 5 times a day situation which just irked me to no avail. Once in a while I go into my group and invite people with the promise that I wont message them unless I have a show which isn’t more then once every couple of weeks.
Take a look at this email I received today – I think its hilarious – especially all the times the word “sincere” was used.
Dear Colleague,
I sincerely thought that the following new blog would be of interest to you:
Please expect to be presented with some new ideas. I hope you are strong enough to rise above the mediocre thinking based on a materialistic world outlook and consider adopting an Authentic Jewish one.
Please forward the url of this blog to anyone you think could benefit from it.
We are proud to see that after much effort, this blog is number one on Google: Authentic Judaism Search on Google as well as Yahoo: Authentic Judaism Search on Yahoo
Sincerely,
Rabbi Raphael Bearmant
(973) 910-0623
PS This is not spam or junk mail. This is a sincere endeavor to get this important information to as many people as possible. Don’t worry, as long as our technology holds up, we will not be contacting you again.
I just hope he realized that there probably isn’t anyone searching for the word authentic Judaism…
Do you have any spam stories?
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Ha! I just got an email from this guy too. Have u glanced at his blog? What a fucking whackjob. Seriously. Guys like him make me wanna puke.
Do you realize you just gave the guys a huge traffic and a nofollow link to their blog? Not that I am against it, but if you call something spam, then act with it like with spam, right?
don’t worry by my calculations not many ppl will click
Anyone who types some words in bold is an idiot.
That’s funny because when I send someone an email I try to watch how many times I use a certain word… such
f—
ass
shit
But seriously, I’ve gotten emails from guys like him…but they weren’t so nice, it was more of a “you’re an evil yenta” kind of thing. Good times!
Gmail’s got the best spam blocker. Click report spam once, and you’ll never see any of their emails again. I did so with almost all the Jewish “spam” I was receiving, as they never unsubscribe you.
Wow, that site has even better frum satire than this one even though it intends to be serious. I think you have some competition on your hands, Heshy.
actually, after reading it more, I’m not 100% sure it is serious. He might just be playing around with us. I don’t know.
For example, how can you compete with this post:
http://blog.authenticjudaism.org/2009/06/what-real-tznius-is-all-about/
It’s still nofollow so it’s a vote for a site from a legit source. For free.
ha ha
I am already thinking to send you one or two spam emails two in order to get a link from your website without paying you a cent
funny thing is you make a mistake by unsubscribing, the latters themselves are spam, when you click “unsubscribe”, you have now let the spammer know he has a live email address.
read here for funny stories
419eater.com
ooops. meant letters, not latters
This guy is the embodiment of everything that’s wrong with Chareidi Judaism. And the worst part is that he would probably take that as a compliment.
@havdla-
You are right. That posting takes the cake.
I commented on his post:
“You are a nut and a sicko. Your Torah knowledge is miniscule and you have zero understanding and common sense.”
Let’s see if he publishes my comment. I wanted to tell him to drop dead, but instead I let my words do the talking.
I also go by Bugsy Siegel on VIN. Does anyone know me?
Heshy, please don’t put a hyper-link to that awful ‘authentic Judaism’ site from your own, because even if no one clicks it still raises his ranking in Google searches.
I also got an email from this guy, I tried to do some research to find out who this weirdo is but I didn’t find anything.
I agree, take him off. He is a poor representative of Judaism. You don’t want people to google Jews and get the wrong impression about Jews.
Any? Hell, these days my job is nothing but spam stories. Finding them. Booting them from the system. Coming up with heuristics to get rid of them…
Nuclear strikes on Lagos, Ibadan, Kaduna and Kano are beginning to sound like a good idea…
I sincerely thought this was going to be a post about actual spam. I was sincerely disappointed. When will somone make a sincere post about spam?