Legitimate Spam

What's more frustrating than the avalance of spam pushing sexual enhancements, diet pills, and cheap software? The stuff that comes from people who should know better. The regular kind of spam is easily identifiable as garbage. The latter form is companies that are legitimate behaving badly, and they should know better.

Today's villain: Careerbuilder.com. I've started getting emails from their "parterns" advertising cheap diplomas, training, and all kinds of stuff. The link to take you to your communications preferences at the Careerbuilder site brings you to a form that includes no options for preferences and generates errors.

It's this kind of spam, more than the obvious garbage, that makes people hesitant to share their email address or complete online transactions. It poisons the selling environment for everyone. Don't do it.