Will Read Your Spam For Money

Scott “I’m going straight” Richter wants you to know that he has a sense of humour, and so he sent Aunty this story from the Onion to share with you all:

Immigrant Laborers Hired to Delete Spam

SAN DIEGO - Executives at Gortman Consulting are hiring immigrant day laborers to delete their junk e-mail. “Our employees were wasting hours of valuable time sifting through spam,” Gortman CEO Donald Barris said Monday. “Finally, I was like, ‘Eureka! Hire some low-cost Hispanic laborers to empty our Outlook Express trashcans.’ Our IT van just swings by the docks in the morning and picks up a dozen or so guys.

[Read the rest of the story at The Onion]

(Of course, the Onion is a spoof ‘newspaper’ with funny, but not true, stories [in fact, Aunty is quite a fan].)

This would be even more funny except for, or perhaps is made more funny by, the fact that there is in fact a Toronto-based ISP called Pathway Communications…

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