There’s this company, Epidemic.com,
that lets people attach advertisements to their outgoing e-mail as a
way of making money. That way, other people — presumably friends and
family — are subjected to ads so that their supposed friend can make money.
This smacks of Tupperware parties and
Amway. So a little note: If anybody,
good friends and close family members included, ever sends me mail with an
ad attached, I’ll block your address at a server-level. (For that matter,
I’ll block your address if you try to get me to buy Tupperware or anything
from a MLM organisation!)