“No doubt hotties adore huge trouser snakes,” states the title of a recent spam email for a product called Megadik. “If you still cannot boast of having a big one, this wonderful preparation will quickly improve it.”
From male enhancement to get-rich-quick schemes, the volume of spam crossing through cyberspace has increased dramatically in recent months, and two of Charleston’s major universities are straining to keep their student e-mail servers sufficiently operating. The Citadel now receives upwards of 900,000 e-mails a day, only 25,000 of which are valid, while the College of Charleston has doubled their e-mail volume to two million in a few short months.
