Welcome to my inbox recruiter. Would you like tea?

I upvoted because I agree with the spirit and some of the points involved in the letter. But if you think recruiters have the time to personalize every e-mail they send for a 3-month PHP contract in BFE, you've been smoking too much hashish.

Really good recruiters who are paid well and have a relationship developed with the company they're recruiting for might read your resume or something about you personally. If they're really really good, when they call you they don't use the form introduction of 'hello, i'm <abc> with <xyz>, i have a position in <location> for a <time> <job title>, are you still in the job market?' But those are few and far between.

Hahahaha. I've totally posted my response to a recruiter on FB before, because I had to vent about it. He nails every important point, including that we should have some sympathy because they are incentivized, at least in the short term, to shotgun blast. OTOH, it sucks to complain at all about getting recruited when so many are unemployed or underemployed.