The Spam Letters

When you get a particularly annoying piece of spam, do you wish you could give the sender a piece of your mind?  Jonathan Land did just that, and the result is, The Spam Letters.  The book is based on Land’s website, TheSpamLetters.com, so I think the material was “previously published” on his site.  I’m not the type to sit and read long passages on my monitor, though, so having the letters in book form was exactly what I needed.  Land is a very good writer, and a very creative thinker, and he has some fabulous retorts to spam pitches.  Unfortunately, 99% of Land’s replies are never seen by a real person (as almost all spam comes from fake email addresses), and it’s a shame that his long letters usually are just being sent into a blackhole.  The letters which do elicit replies (the Nigerian banking scam emails) aren’t all that interesting, and after you’ve read one, the rest are pretty much the same.  So, if you’ve wanted to reply to your spam mail, you might find this book cathartic.  If you’re just intrigued by the idea, check out Land’s website, where you can download some sample chapters so you’ll know what you’re getting.

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 12/05 at 07:39 PM

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