Greetings

[beth_leonard]

First thought on reading my in-box, "Wow, looks like the greeting card spammers are at it again, trying to trick me into going to their malware websites."

Second thought after reading more e-mail, "Oh yeah, it's my birthday today. I wonder if some of those were legit."

Too late now.
--Beth

Comments

[kirin]

Heh. Guess everyone should try my method of sending birthday greetings by spamming comments in unrelated LJ entries instead. ;)

[ashke.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday! Since I did not know it was your birthday, I wasn't one of those possible greeting cards that you may have deleted!

BTW, have you had time to go and watch the Olympics? Just curious.

[eilonwey.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!

Check your trash file? Maybe the cards are still there!

[querldox.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!

[songmonk.livejournal.com]

Awesome. :-)

[elflynn.livejournal.com]

You are so cute! :)

Happy birthday!

[steuard.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday! And hey, I've never been that big on the greeting card websites anyway. Now that they're a common spam technique, I haven't given them a second thought. (I wouldn't be surprised if SpamAssassin would throw away legitimate ones itself by now, actually.)

But I am a little disturbed that this thought didn't occur to me at all on my birthday. I don't even know if I got any greeting card spam that day.

[dushai.livejournal.com]

I've seen a rash of greeting card spam also, and it's not my birthday. I find that checking for a ".exe" extension is a quick heuristic for junking this particular spam. (Looking at the sender's email address seems to be a good second check.) Text-based mail client users unite!

Also, happy birthday. :) I hope you're having a great one!

[beth_leonard]

Hey, I liked it. It was one of the ones that reminded me that today was actually my birthday. (We had a small gathering last week already.)

--Beth

[beth_leonard]

Not nearly as much as I would have liked. DVR's are fun though. I'm not a fan of the image compression (I'm pickier now that I'm a video professional) but the speed I can skip to what I want to watch is amazing. My quote to Jon, "Wow, I just watched 5 hours of TV in 30 minutes."

--Beth

[beth_leonard]

mutt all the way!
--Beth

[beth_leonard]

I am horrible at sending birthday greetings. So, um, happy-un-birthday today!

Because I would have known by now if we shared one...

--Beth

[blimix.livejournal.com]

Hah! Happy birthday.