This morning I received some spam. Of course this is nothing unusual. Spam is the Internet's way of telling us that our mail servers are alive, right? What was unusual was that this spam landed in my inbox and that I actually found myself reading it. I shall share it with you, since I haven't shared much with my blog readers recently:

Hello,
Greetings from AUSTRALIA .
I have high interest in you product which iwill want to order by mail,i
will make payment to you by credit card(visa/mastercard) and
i want you to quote me on .....
which i willsend to you later after confirming this mail
MY DELIVERY ADDRESS
130 melbourne central
MELBURNE ,
NSW,
AUSTRALIA
Also, I experience difficulties when it comes to getting items to
myaddress here in Australia, It would best if you contact the shipperwhich
i used in the past.(bringingworld@h..., you can alsonotify them
with my customer
id# SA32051272L.
Regards
Mary

I can see why Mary is experiencing difficulties with getting items (whatever they may be, the email isn't very clear) to her address. You see, Melbourne (with an 'o') hasn't been in the state of New South Wales since the State of Victoria was established in the mid nineteenth century.