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I’ve always hated MySpace. With a passion. Today, however, they rose one notch higher on my death list:

From:    MySpace Events
Subject: Girls Gone Wild DVD Collections has invited you to:
Girls Gone Wild - Free Videos! - Check it out

Girls Gone Wild DVD Collections has invited you to an event
on MySpace:

Girls Gone Wild - Free Videos! - Check it out

Click the link below to view the event details:
http://events.myspace.com/...

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At MySpace we care about your privacy. We have sent you this
notification to facilitate your use as a member of the
MySpace.com service. If you don't want to receive emails
like this to your external email account in the future,
change your Account Settings to "Do not send me notification
emails."

Click here to change your Account Settings:
http://www.myspace.com/reloc.cfm?c=11

The content is sadly illustrative of much of what there is to hate about that tasteless also-ran (which has enjoyed an infuriating degree of success, given how completely unoriginal, not to mention monumentally user-unfriendly it is).

However, it’s the ending of the message that really got me.

This was sent directly to an address which I never gave them. Clicking on the nearest thing to an “unsubscribe” link, I can’t take any useful action because I have no account associated with this address. This is just straight-up spam, pure and simple.

Yet more than half of the message body (with which I was spammed) is dedicated to platitudes about their respect for me, my time, my attention, and my privacy.

Just one more reason to despise Newscorp.