Martin Alonso Soto Jacome:
> > Speaking of junk e-mail, I did some more work on my junkmail
> > daemon today. junkmail is an autoresponder I wrote to "deal with"
> > the ever-increasing amount of unsolicited commercial email I
> > receive every day. Instead of getting angry and writing a very
On Wed, 1 May 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote:
> On Wed, 1 May 1996, Scott Barker wrote:
>
> > Lars Wirzenius said:
> >
> > > Don't do that. Mail bombing is worse than junk mail.
> >
> > But it's not a bomb. You're just helping the spammer along by
> > showing him a bunch of examples of other people's
On Wed, 1 May 1996, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> Scott Barker:
> > You might want to consider saving some of the junkmail (perhaps
> > a database holding about 5Meg worth of junkmail), and send each
> > spammer a copy of each o f those junk mails, just so they know
> > how it feels :) Preface each one
Gerry Jensen said:
> What if the spammer faked his email address. You could be bombing a
> innocent person.
Ah! True enough. Guess it's best to just fire off a single warning to the
supposed offender, their postmaster, and the postmaster of their upstream site
(if applicable).
--
Scott Barker
On Wed, 1 May 1996, Scott Barker wrote:
> Lars Wirzenius said:
> > Don't do that. Mail bombing is worse than junk mail.
>
> But it's not a bomb. You're just helping the spammer along by showing him a
> bunch of examples of other people's junk mail :) You're providing them a
> service, and should
Scott Barker:
> But it's not a bomb. You're just helping the spammer along by showing him a
> bunch of examples of other people's junk mail :) You're providing them a
> service, and should charge for it :)
I see the smileys, but I still disagree. There are people who don't
talk about mail bombs (
Lars Wirzenius said:
> Don't do that. Mail bombing is worse than junk mail.
But it's not a bomb. You're just helping the spammer along by showing him a
bunch of examples of other people's junk mail :) You're providing them a
service, and should charge for it :)
--
Scott Barker
Linux Consultant
Scott Barker:
> You might want to consider saving some of the junkmail (perhaps a database
> holding about 5Meg worth of junkmail), and send each spammer a copy of each o
> f
> those junk mails, just so they know how it feels :) Preface each one with
> "Gee, your junk mail was really boring. Perhap
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