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Article #3108Re: Activity Report
From: Nathan Schmidt
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 00:00
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Wayne W. McDougall wrote: > Ian Riddler <griffler@es.co.nz> writes: > > Nathan Schmidt wrote: > > > Wayne W. McDougall wrote: > > > > > You played a clever trick, and some of them fell for it. Take a bow, W > > > > > you're *so* smart. > > ok, I'm unsure who I'm quoting above. However, the point is valid. > > Wayne, you set people up for a fall. Quite deliberately. Not very nice. > > I don't think you should do that any more. > I'm happy to consider that, provided I get a response to the cases and > the outcomes that I presented for setting reply-to to the postmaster. > Remember, no evidence has been presented that anyone has been tricked, or > any harm has resulted. Yeah, right. You tricked that fellow that *tried to apologise* and he seemed to think that you'd contacted his ISP. I'd say you tricked him, and that makes you a liar. > The point is not to "trick" people but to ensure that the message gets > through. Some people advocate that I should be contacting the postmasters > in the first instance. I think that is extreme, unjustified and unhelpful. Be a man, Wayne. If something annoys you, and you feel justified in complaining, go ahead. Do your own dirty work, don't be a dickhead.
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