Sneaky Bastard

I received some spam from Sys-Con Media today, 9 October 2007. The publication associated with the e-mail is ColdFusion Developer's Journal, which is now defunct. The date on the “news” is 8 August 2007, and the lead story is “It's Here! Adobe Ships ColdFusion 8”.

Really? They're just now floating this gem on the 'net? Imagine if the headline in today's paper was “Iraq War: Not Going Very Well”. I imagine that someone at Sys-Con made a data entry error, creating an e-mail blast scheduled for 10/8/07 instead of 8/10/07. Or maybe their spam server doesn't parse dates quite right. In any case, I would be embarrassed to be associated with Sys-Con.