I sent spam

So something happened and a virus got into my email account and spammed my friends with a link to Viagra. Pretty embarrassing, huh? Especially as some of my friends turned out to be so convinced in my infallibility, good nature, and absent mindedness, that they opened an email from me with no subject line and no content, other than the link, and actually opened the link (Pssssssst! Never do this again!). And then I got emails asking me why on earth I would send them a link to Viagra. Oy.


When I tried to email all of my contacts with an apology, and spent 5 minutes clicking on the contacts in my address book (yahoo wouldn't let me select them all), I got a notification from yahoo that I was trying to spam my friends, and that I needed to go into time out for that. I wasn't allowed to email anyone for 2 hours. Nice.

Then I emailed a big sorry to everyone in batches. Only to have friends tell me they never got any spam from me (other than the apology spam, that is.)

If you receive an email from me with no subject line and no content--well, that's not me! I'm all for the subject lines. I even think too much about them. I noticed that if I receive an email with a "hi" in the subject line from an unfamiliar name, I tend to delete it without opening (yeah, I suspect spam / virus). So I tend to have subject lines like "Hi, this is Ania, and we met in the store last week" or something like that.

So my apologies to those who opened "my" spam email. And my apologies to those who haven't received the spam email and now claim I have an exclusive spam list, and they are not on it. When I decide to spam you with my novel publication date, you will all be on my spam list. And I will have an elaborate subject line and lots of text inside, and some links too.