Re: [MacPerl] The BOMB [Was Re: E-mail Address Extractor?]

[Matthew Langford <langfml [at] eng [dot] auburn [dot] edu>]

On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Bill Jones wrote:

> (In my 20 yrs in computers, many on the 'Net, I
>  actually get very little spam...)

That could change very quickly.  Hypothetically speaking, someone could
post your email address on a bunch of newsgroups, perhaps place it on a
high-traffic web page or two.  There are those who could and would shut
you down, if they had proof of your spam-tool-making capability, just as
they did Sanford Wallace a while back.

If you had ever administrated a mail server at an ISP, coming in to work
when you should be sleeping (whatever time that may be), coming in to work
on holiday weekends when you really wanted to be doing something else, you
would hate spam.

And because the arrival of new clueless spammers is as unstoppable as
ignorance itself, you would realize that spam-address-collectors and
spam-CD-creators are despicable.  They ruin great promise; it's like
selling cans of spray paint to people entering a great art museum, and
convincing them that they _should_ spray freely when inside.

It probably would be wise to treat the issue with a little more respect.


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MattLangford 


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