Delete all spam messages now

I'm actually glad I get some spam. When there are no new messages in my inbox, I go to my spam folder just to read the funny subject lines.

Margaret tells me she wants "One night stands", Robert says: "We've got you covered", John would like to "Xtrasize me" and Jeffrey's got "ApprovedMeds". It's always the same pattern.

So for a few seconds before I hit "Delete all spam forever and ever" – I feel like a sex-crazed, size-obsessed, pharmaceutical junkie.

As time goes by, the things these people I've never met are trying to push on me, lose their grip of fascination and fear. Now I'm only slightly bemused.

I sometimes wonder how many are out there that, when reading their spam, ask themselves: "Could it be true? Should I get this stuff?"