Cooperative but Undistinguished
The search engines have been sending me traffic due to this post about the Nigerian scam e-mail. I got a funny e-mail recently from a reader in Detroit who one-upped me by pointing out that I merely received the message because I am a "potentially cooperative person." But he writes: "Without any false modesty I want it on record that I got the same mailing, but it was sent to me because I am 'a distinguished member of the bar.'"

So if the Nigerian e-mailer got his name from a list of attorneys, I wonder what list characterized me as a cooperative person? New York bloggers? Americans who lived in Czechoslovakia when it was still called Czechoslovakia? People who gave money to Amnesty International more than a decade ago and have since received at least 500 mailings asking for more? Journalists who think it's OK to admit they read Matt Drudge? Oh, so many possibilities.
- posted by Amy @ 5/19/2002 09:59:00 AM