Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 21:25:07 -0400
From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: spam, spam, and more spam
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

ronkean at juno.com wrote:

> [to Keith]
>
> But there is something I find puzzling.  Based on the responses you
> quoted, it sounds like some of the complaining you have done has been to
> the spammers themselves, as distinct from the business being advertised
> (if different from the spammer), or the originating ISP.  I would think
> that complaining to spammers would be a waste of effort 99% of the time,
> based on the hostile or ignorant attitudes evidenced by the spammers'
> responses, as well as the common sense observation that spammers are not
> ashamed of what they do.  Also, complaining to spammers might result in
> them taking some malevolent retaliatory action against you, e.g. making
> false complaints to your ISP that you are spamming or harassing, hitting
> you with an overload of email, or simply adding your address to as many
> spamming lists as they can.

Y'know, I suspect you've hit on *exactly* the reason Keith gets so much more
spam than most of us.

--Ted White