Monday, November 16, 2020

On the acknowledgement of messages

 Recently, I've been hit with a virus - I'm in a twenty-person text thread which was initiated, for purposes unknown, by a some kind of spam genius organization. Frankly, I love it - I'm proud of the spammers: they've created a perpetual spam machine that has no clear end in sight. Every day or so, sometimes multiple times a day, an exchange like this occurs:

A frustrated member of our self-created prison lashes out, demanding that we all stop texting, and then a helpful good Samaritan replies, explaining that texts sent to the group do, in fact, get sent to the entire group. Of course, the ultimate irony is that by chastening the first texter, goodie two-shoes is the prime mover of the next exchange, ad nauseam, ad infinitum.

Hats off to the spammers, this is top notch spam!