[Asterisk-Users] Fw: Gift for Mark Spencer

[Joe Greco]

> On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 18:47 -0600, Steve Maroney wrote:
> > Is that directed towards me ?
> > 
> > Why ?
> 
> I doubt it was directed at you. If your read your message in a good
> threaded mail reader, you would have seen it is in response to my
> message that was aimed at the hackerwanker. 

Let's not be abusive towards the victim of an unsolicited bulk e-mail.

http://spam.abuse.net/overview/whatisspam.shtml

While I believe that the senders of this spam did in fact have good
intentions, that doesn't change the inappropriateness of having sent
it.  Certainly there were some valid questions about the authenticity,
and if it were not an authentic message, then warning the mailing list
about the problem would be a good idea.

On the flip side, senders of spam should not expect recipients to go 
to much (or any) trouble on their behalf, especially given the current
spam environment on the 'net.  They - not hackerwaCker - blew the 
surprise by sending the message to recipients unknown.

... JG
-- 
Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.