What's your spam name?

You know how you can work out your porn name? There's many ways to do it, but my favourite is you take the name of your first pet followed by your mother's maiden name. This makes the stud Jeremy Dubois in my case (watch out ladies!).

Given the amount of spam anyone who's had an email address for more than 5 minutes gets, surely it is just a matter of time before the formula for calculating your spam name comes out. There's a guy who has collected a list of the names he's been spammed by from the delectable 'Lavonne Crowe' to the slightly distubring 'Domingo Mann' (www.anentropic.com/writing/spamnames/index.php).

But I've yet to find a good formula for the must for every netizen their own spam name. How about the name of your favourite site, plus that of the spotty kid in your class - Beeb Crawford. Not bad, but it's not quite there is it? Steve Bulmer could end up with Microsoft Gates and that's a scary thought. So, let's open it up to the floor. I think I'll have to stew on this one and blog again.

Bright ideas to jasonbenali@hotmail.com a.k.a. Beeb Crawford

BT sack 200 in porn sting

News today that BT have sacked 200 for accessing pornographic material at work. BT sent 2 emails last year informing employees that they would face the chop if they were abusing their work PCs (and themselves if you believe certain religions) and sure enough, the inevitable happened with at least one 'hardcore' culprit ending up in jail no less.

Now you could be a little cynical about the whole affair and allege that this was a great way of trimming the fat in hard times, but you just wonder what they were playing at after 2 emails. A good reminder to read the plethora of company-wide emails that go around. Imagine the poor 200 souls trying to explain themselves in future interviews... "Well, I received this piece of spam and in trying to unsubscribe inadvertently spent 2 hours on the site trying to do so." I believe you, even if no one else does.

(news with a little help from the www.theregister.co.uk)