Pointless spam

Not that spam has much of a point to it, but the least you expect is a link to some site that intends to rob you, or if you are willing to settle for less, a cheap ass porn site.
What really irritates me is the pointless spam. In the form of forwards that want you to pass the word around that Bill Gates will pay a cent to some demented and disabled kid in some obscure place in America everytime you forward the mail, or that a host will pop out of the keyboard if you DON'T forward the mail, or there is some non-existent virus in some kind of a mail, say from all your aunts. Almost as clever as those cheap fortunetellers, who rely on parrots to reveal secrets of your destiny. (Destiny is, by the way, a very powerful thing. It is the drive to realize everything you were meant to be, and are not, as commonly thought, as things turn out to be what they are in the end afterall. This sentence is just a further explanation of the BIG realization, see the next post (or previous, depending on how you look at it) for details).
coming back to the point, irritating spam is at its absolute worse when it creeps into your unread messages in messenger. Here are the unaltered unread messages in my messenger inbox. Totally pointless, but:

Notice the timings. Very important as to how quickly the news spread.

scary_aashola (11/9/2005 3:01:15 PM): > Someone by name of Vivekabarathi@yahoo.com may request to add you to messenger. Don't accept it. Its a virus. Tell everyone on your bulletin > because if somebody on your list adds them, you get the virus too. Tell > everyone on your list not to open anything from Vivekabarathi. I t is a hard drive killer and a very horrible virus. Pass this letter to everyone on your > IM list.. . Right click on the group name of your IM list and click Send > Message to allBUZZ!!!

rohitthegenius1 (11/11/2005 9:15:21 AM): who s der?

sandwaugh (11/11/2005 9:24:22 PM): Somebody by name of Vivekabarathi@yahoo.co. may add you. dont accept it. Its a virus. Tell everyone on your bulletin because if somebody on your list adds them, you get the virus too. Tell everyone on your list not to open anything from Vivekabarathi. It is a hard drive killer and a very horrible virus.pass this letter to everyone on your buddy list. . Right click on the group name of your buddy list and click Send Message to all

lavanya_chhabra (11/11/2005 9:25:06 PM): Somebody by name of Vivekabarathi@yahoo.co. may add you. dont accept it. Its a virus. Tell everyone on your bulletin because if somebody on your list adds them, you get the virus too. Tell everyone on your list not to open anything from Vivekabarathi. It is a hard drive killer and a very horrible virus.pass this letter to everyone on your buddy list. . Right click on the group name of your buddy list and click Send Message to all

candybull_22 (11/11/2005 10:28:45 PM): Somebody by name of Vivekabarathi@yahoo.co. may add you. dont accept it. Its a virus. Tell everyone on your bulletin because if somebody on your list adds them, you get the virus too. Tell everyone on your list not to open anything from Vivekabarathi. It is a hard drive killer and a very horrible virus.pass this letter to everyone on your buddy list. . Right click on the group name of your buddy list and click Send Message to all

(Representative and NOT exhaustive)
The first one come sunder the group of 'building friends' and the remaining three under 'BMM friends.' There is a connection somewhere, the message took two days to travel over this connection. I have to find out where. I think I will waste my time doing that now.