Re: Alan Connor Spam Killer

From: Alan Connor (zzzzzz_at_xxx.yyy)
Date: 05/16/04 

Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 18:07:31 GMT

On Sun, 16 May 2004 20:59:44 +1000, Harry Phillips <harry@hkjsfh.com> wrote:
>
>
> Alan Connor wrote:
>>
>> Spam goes out of its way to keep you from identifying it,
>>
>
> You acknowledge that the spam you receive has a forged address, and in
> response to that you send out an *unsolicited* e-mail to an innocent
> third party?
>

I don't KNOW the address is forged. How could I?

If you mean: Has some spammer forged someone else's address
which received a C-R from my program and was upset enough by
it to send it back with a nasty note?

No. That has never happenned to me. Only one complaint, and
that was from an address that turned out to be from a domain
on the DNS Blakck List.

They were VERY upset, and obviouly spammers. I blocklisted
their entire domain.

Spammers really don't like C-Rs.

Why do YOU dislike them so much?

Not that it makes any difference. You can't stop me from
using or promoting my program, and you obviously don't
care to be friends, so you can just go piss up a rope,
can't you?

<snip>

AC 

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