For the last couple of months my gmail address was getting increasingly popular. Geee.. just for a moment I thought somebody had stolen and published my very own poem collection with my mail address . Everyday I checked mails, I had about 10 to 20 mails in the inbox from guys I had never heard of . 90% of them were promoting tit-bits in the internet. The best part of it was that my address was never there in their receiver list. At the first glance, I thought they were unintentional. But it didn't take me too long to put the thinking cap on and realise that I was getting blind carbon copies(bcc). So I picked the spammers' mail addresses and checked them against the bulk mails I got from some of my friends. Yep. I found plenty in forwarded mails.
I took a leaf out of those spammers' book and decided to bcc all my bulk mails thereafter so that no one will have hands on my contact list and asked my pals to do the same. It's pity that my super-star-inbox has been back to normal now that I have blocked most of my spammer fans, but it feels like heaven every day I see my inbox clean.
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