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Bacn

Our mail boxes are filling up again.

Just as we thought we were getting around developing our spam mail strategies, be it by automated features such as firewalls and spam filters, or by sheer trained manual labour sorting through your incoming emails, a new kind of inbox fillers are showing up. It's pronounced a lot like "bacon", and it's called: Bacn.

Whereas spam is unwanted commercials contained in emails, bacn is the sort of email that you actually agreed to receive at some point, or maybe even asked for, but never really read. The kind where you thought, "I might like to get an email from these guys on certain occasions", and now the certain occasions seem to come up sometimes multiple times a day.

If you've ever had to sort through:
- purchase recommendations from amazon,
- music news from iTunes Music Store,
- topic reply notifications from the fora where you participate,
to get to messages from actual people wanting to get in touch with you, then you've tried being exposed to bacn.

It seems the RSS revolution is badly needed, though not moving fast enough.