global effects.

as if nigerian spam with hacked up english wasn't bad enough, i am now one of the many people getting german spam. reports say that the spam directs you to websites for "nationalist"/right-wing german political parties and neo-nazi websites. they seem to have the usual gripe, complaining about foreigners taking away jobs and spoiling the quality of living, and so forth.

however, one of the more interesting things i found was that if you send the der spiegel article through the babelfish, one of the subjects comes up as "Policy on Foreigners." this is really interestingly close to hitler's "Policy on the Jews." something tells me this is not a coincidence.

of course, the main problem with this spam is that it seems to be largely hitting english-speakers, who are looking at it, complaining about garbage, and deleting it. probably not the desired effect of the people who took the time to not only set up the websites, but also write a series of worms to distribute them. on the other hand, they're not being ignored, either, just ridiculed. i wonder which is worse?