Re: OT/advice: spam (wasRe: Klingon speaker needed in Portland, Oregon)

Actually, Stone, sending any response to spammers has no effect either, and
is actually deleterious.  Some of them don't have your name (because I'm
"scaves" to a lot of spammers, I get advertisements for VIAGRA, Penis
enlargement ads, and women looking to please a willing gentleman.
Responding gives them your name, your gender, and they can target you more
specifically.  They are indifferent to flames.

And the request to "remove me from your mailing list" actually does the same
thing.  So you're making the problem worse.

Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."



----- Original Message -----
From: "Stone Gordonssen" <stonegordonssen@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: OT/advice: spam (wasRe: Klingon speaker needed in Portland,
Oregon)


> >After my semi-automated deluge of mutilated emails, one porno-spammer
> >wrote me to inform me that the porno-(web)ring he/she belongs to has put
my
> >email
> >address at the very top of their "Top Not Wanted List" which is also
known
> >as
> >their "hate-list" (as to opposed to their "bait-list").
>
> I'll try this with the many annoying sex ads I get:
> - DO YOU WANT A BIGGER ONE? - No, my is adequately sized and seems to
> function well.
> - LIKE YOUNG ASIAN GIRLS? - No, I'm gay. Nor have I any interest in
> legal-age boys who look 15.
> - LIKE WOMEN WITH HUGE GAZOOMBAS? - NO!!!!!
>
> Sending "remove me" mails has no effect.
>
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