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[tree_and_leaf]

For the first time in ages, I've had spam in my gmail account. It read:

"Your anaconda is set to ravage the virginal beauties"

I LOLd (though even more at the targeted ads earnestly offering me National Geographic snake videos or advising me where I could buy a slow worm†)

† Though aren't they on the Red List? Should I in fact, be phoning the police?

ETA: Bugger. My Oyster card appears to have been cancelled, because I didn't respond to the confirm auto-top-up message. Because, for once, the university webmail put something in a spam folder. Incorrectly, naturally. (Though honestly, TFL, sending out messages with five attachments is just silly...)

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[fpb.livejournal.com]

This is something I have learned the hard way: always look into your spam folder, and never delete it without knowing what you are deleting. Damn.

(I did not receive updates from one press service I subscribed to, nor from LJ, for two years straight, because for some reason my Yahoo account had registered their addresses as spam.)

[tree_and_leaf]

Yes; I shall have to be more careful about that, though, of course, ninety-nine times out of one hundred there won't be anything in there other than actual spam....

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Oh, quite. It's the one hundredth time you have to worry about, though.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

I bought an Oyster card over the counter and tried to register it online later. The system at stations still doesn't regard it as a registered card, though I can top up online. I didn't ask for automatic reminders, however; perhaps it's just as well.