Interesting Coincidence

Since I’ve disconnected from job search sites and taken myself off headhunters emailing lists, I’m no longer getting SPAM emails.

In fact, I haven’t gotten any crap emails for weeks.

This makes me think…

I always knew “Free” probably comes with strings. But I never imagined that job search sites and / or headhunters would sell candidate information to unrelated industries.

Yet that’s exactly what appears to have happened, at least empirically.

For all I know some government or governments cracked down on the folks that have been plaguing us with SPAM.

HAHAHAHAH! Government doing something like ENFORCING the law?!?

I gotta find out what they’re putting in the coffee around this place.

Although I suppose that some governments actually DO enforce the laws in their countries. Ours just isn’t one of them.

Anyhoo.

If any of you gentle readers have accounts on linkedin, dice, or monster, and you’re of a mind to experiment. Try closing and deleting your account. Then see if your SPAM levels drop. 

If they do… then perhaps it’s time to arrange a boycott of those sites.  Target has taken a hit over the bathroom dust-up, what would investors say about losses mounting in a web service that’s supposed to be helpful.

Just curious…