I guess I’m lucky that not too many real looking but spam mails filter through. I can see how the effort involved to review them would chip away at ones patience.

So thanks – now I have a better understanding as to why people freak out. My reference to Damien’s post came after I wrote my post – and was a bad decision. It made it look like I was talking about him/that post when I was really just asking in general.

I get annoyed more at email spam.

Now let’s put it in context. The spam that comes through your door is generally the type of spam that your spam filter picks up and automatically ends up in your junk folder.

SO you know when you open your door, you see a pile of junk mail, you pick it up and put it in the recycle bin without having to once look at anything in it. That spam is so easy to pick up.

Then there is the other spam, spam from supposedly reputable bodies, that you’d take the time to look at. When you do, you can see it’s a blanket bombed email, now that’s the type of spam that annoys me.

When I say some lazy bugger mass mailing thousands of users with no regard for the user at the other end, I feel it’s a complete lack of respect. So that makes me crazy.

It usually takes a few emails before I lose it. It’s not as if it happens on the first one. As in Mulley’s case, someone went one step too far and he reacted.

For example, not being removed from the mailing list after numerous requests, a smart comment in return when you ask them to remove you etc etc.

The lazy user that has sent all those silly emails doesn’t understand the power of the web and in Mulley’s case again, how much of a negative impact his stupidity could have brought on their company, because Mulley has blogged about it.

Anyway, I’m going off on one now!

But hopefully you can see that it really gets to us bloggers/online marketers who get spammed, it’s not just blogging about it for the sake of it.

I feel that’s much more of an invasion of my personal space and environmentally a terrible waste.

So my question to everyone is maybe – If you get an advert through your door for Satellite TV and one via email – which annoys you more and why.