{"id":15943,"date":"2009-10-07T08:34:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T14:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=15943"},"modified":"2009-10-07T08:34:16","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T14:34:16","slug":"professional-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/07\/professional-spam.html","title":{"rendered":"Professional SPAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Spam, spam, spam, spam ...\" height=\"104\" alt=\"spam\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/spam.jpg\" width=\"104\" \/> <\/div>\n<p>Somewhere, somehow, my work email had gotten on some &#8220;professional IT services&#8221; list that is spawning many emails per day from many legitimate purveyors of IT services and info. I&#8217;m opting out whenver I can, but it&#8217;s like playing IT Whack-a-Mole. I don&#8217;t want to flag them as actual spam because these are legit companies, and if I just delete them I&#8217;ll continue to get mail from the folks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I just wish I knew where my email addy got out into the wild recently so that I could track the person who did it and hit them, hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere, somehow, my work email had gotten on some &#8220;professional IT services&#8221; list that is spawning many emails per day from many legitimate purveyors of IT services and info. I&#8217;m opting out whenver I can, but it&#8217;s like playing IT Whack-a-Mole. I don&#8217;t want to flag them as actual spam because these are legit companies, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/07\/professional-spam.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Professional SPAM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job-jollies","category-spam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2471,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/18\/spam_o_the_day.html","url_meta":{"origin":15943,"position":0},"title":"Spam o&#8217; the Day","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 18-Jun-02 8:43am","format":false,"excerpt":"From: \"I. 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