🚀 go-pugleaf

It was an attempt to negotiate the annoying bots who harvest addresses. So
far it's working famously. I havent' had but 3 spam emails to that addy in
about a month.

jason


"Bao H. Lammy" <BaoLammy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uld5cabpekhi02@corp.supernews.com...
> "non conformist" <no@spam.for.me> wrote
> > >>>imo, he should have mentioned how to make his address work...or,
> > >>>it's possible he set up his newsreader incorrectly, I suppose.
> > >>or mabye people should just familiarize themselves with the technology
> > >>before they start whining about somebody else using it improperly ;)
> > > ;) yeah, but the guy is selling something. It's in *his* best interest
> > > to reduce problems with the transaction.
> > would you go to japan and complain because a classified ad in the local
> > paper was written in kanji? its more beneficial to educate the unknowing
> > rather than to accomodate them. and I would say that by the looks of
> > this thread at least one person has now learned about tricks that avoid
> > spam (to help protect themselves), and how to interact with these tricks
> > in a legitimate manner (to help them communicate with the people who use
> > such "tricks").
>
> It *is* more beneficial to educate. That's what I did. And in this case,
> educating a newbie is the same as accommodating them. (Telling them
> about munging of email addresses.) A helpful note like, "Add .com to
> my address to make it work," is both educational and accommodating.
>
> You first wrote, "or maybe people should just familiarize themselves
> with the technology before they start whining about somebody else
> using it improperly." That did not sound to me like you were in favor
> of educating. Anyway, this thread is over for me. l8r
>
>