While watching the Congressional hearing video I began to wonder about some of the Congressmen and their porn usage. At one point one of the Senators stated that every morning his e-mail which he checks in a federal office building, is full of 25 spam e-mails. 5 of which are for porn. This was part of his argument for the elimination of porn but I think he was just saying what others wanted him to say. I think he looks at porn and he does it on the job. Here's why…
First of all, most spam e-mails people receive they did something to get it. Somewhere at some point in time, that e-mail address was entered on a website for something and eventually wound up on the list of some third party. From them, you get spam. So, at some point in time this Senator entered his e-mail and is not susceptible to spam.
I also know, from personal experience, that porn e-mails won't come unless you have entered an e-mail address on a porn site. Once you do this, you open the flood gates. When I was in high school I did this and my e-mail account became unusable because I'd get so many e-mails. Since then, I have never done it again and I am pretty sure since high school I've seen less than 5 porn e-mails in my box.
My last point to make is that these porn e-mails don't just show up randomly. Here at UB we have a great spam blocker and I very,very, very rarely get a spam e-mail. Now this Senator is accessing his e-mail in a federal office building. FEDERAL. Don't you think they would have top of the line spam protection and all that jazz? They should be on the cutting edge of spam blocking, but yet this Senator still gets porn e-mails and spam more than I do?
I know this is my conspiracy theory but to me there is no other explanation than this guy is watching porn in his office, while working and that's the cause of his problem.
April 25, 2006 at 8:56 pm
“I also know, from personal experience, that porn e-mails won’t come unless you have entered an e-mail address on a porn site. Once you do this, you open the flood gates.”
I would have to differ in opinion on this one. My husband has frequented porn sites – that is a given. However, he NEVER gives out his email address and his inbox was flooded with solicitations and spam. How do I know he never gave out his email address. Because he is very careful. He is suspicious of everything. He barely shares his info with his friends. We don’t hide anything from one another. I know he never submitted his email address so therefore, they got it some other way. (Cookies, spyware, adware – but not by inputting his email address.)
Other than that, I think you are right, he (senator) probably is surfing the web at work and causing his own problems.
April 27, 2006 at 10:24 am
Thank you for responding to my blog. I do realize that those types of e-mails can be a result of spam and spyware however, my point was that in a Federal office building you would suspect that their protections against these things would be top notch. Therefore, it’d be his porn surfin’ that’s the problem.
August 13, 2007 at 6:06 am
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