Bacon…I like it

I was listening to the Buzz Out Loud podcast on cnet.com yesterday (I think it was that one, there are a few I listen to) and they coined a new term I like. Bacon.

Not sizzling pig meat, I like that too, but this is spam that’s not quite spam. You know what I am talking about. You sign up for a web site and they need an email address to send your password to. Well, after you get that password you also start getting email, not quite spam, but messages from the site that you don’t really want. Messages that come so infrequently that it would take more time to go to the web site, remember your password, request a new one because you forgot it, log in again, find the “opt-out” option, and update your preferences than it takes to just hit the delete button.

Well, that is bacon, not spam but not fully cooked email either, and I like it. So please, no bacon in my inbox.