OT: What is a spammer (was: Re: Microsoft accuses Google of pushing services to Android) [message #181193 is a reply to message #181169] |
Sat, 20 April 2013 08:02 |
Arno Welzel
Messages: 317 Registered: October 2011
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Jerry Stuckle, 2013-04-19 23:58:
> On 4/19/2013 4:22 PM, Arno Welzel wrote:
>> Jerry Stuckle, 2013-04-19 22:06:
[Jerry Stuckle explaining that he asked people to stop sending spam and
some of them apologized]
>>> Maybe *YOU* don't apologize for sending SPAM. Some people do, when they
>>> realize it IS spam.
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>> Then they are not spammers. They are just people who did a mistake.
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> According to YOUR definition. Most of the rest of the world does NOT
> agree with you.
Well - i may not be that experienced after just about 15 years of
running mailservers. But at least i noticed, that *none* of the spammers
ever stopped by telling them to stop sending their junk and *none* of my
clients even considered using *spam* as a form of advertisement.
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>> No - a "spammer" is a person who sends spam and does not care about the
>> negative effects.
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>>> But then you have a VERY narrow view of who spammers are. One which is
>>> NOT shared by most of the world.
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>> The opposite is true - otherwise everybody would kindly ask every
>> spammer to stop their business instead of using tools like
>> SpamAssassing, greylisting, blacklisting etc.
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> No, YOU'RE the one with the VERY narrow view of who spammers are.
I see...
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Arno Welzel
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