Butter Knife

I don't know how this happened to me, but my work e-mail gets all these ads for CPE that I don't recall signing up for.

And some of them are really stupid because they're like, "Become an enrolled agent!"
Becoming an EA while I'm already a CPA would be like asking your spouse to go steady with you.

Normal people probably wouldn't mind getting these e-mails. It's not like they're flooding my inbox. Maybe one or two a day.

Me, however? I cannot handle such nonsense, so I went ahead and marked them as spam.
I didn't know this until after I did it, but Outlook (or maybe just our work server) has a "feature" where sends you an e-mail that lists all of the spam it caught for you.

So now instead of getting an annoying spam e-mail a day, I get an annoying non-spam e-mail per day telling me about the spam e-mail that I didn't get.

Isn't that retarded?

I told Mike about it, and he was like, "Feed the spam!"

Accordingly, I added the spam report e-mail address to my spam list. Now every time a real spam e-mail comes through, it will generate the spam report e-mail. But since I also blocked the spam reports, then that e-mail will generate another spam report e-mail, which will generate another spam report e-mail and so on and so forth until it all blows up in my face.

Genius.

Faulty wiring,
TWS