Mac mini March: The Ins and Outs of Getting a Free Mac mini

On Thursday (I'm losing my touch),
studio2f.com posted about an unexpected arrival: "Yesterday out of nowhere a brand-spanking new Apple Mac Mini arrived at my office. The Mini shipped directly from Apple. Apparently— although it's not noted in my status on their site— I've successfully completed the Free Mac Mini scheme."

The post is interesting for all the details about the lengths one has to go through to actually get the Mac mini freebie scheme to work. Of course, is a free Mac mini really worth the lifetime of spam that one is most likely getting oneself into with these schemes?