On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 23:10:22 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 11/27/2017 12:07 PM, Joakim wrote:
It has been said that you shouldn't respond to such spam
posts, but my guess is that's only to make it easier to remove
the thread, by not having to hunt down all the replies or
something.
Responding to spam encourages it. It's what the spammer wants.
I find that hard to believe, especially since spam threads like
the one I linked are completely nuked from the forum.
The same goes for abusive posts.
Sure, that makes sense. I sometimes try to reason with the
person, but not if the abuse continues.
If you still feel you must reply to it, do not quote any part
of it.
In the mailing list thread linked above, I only responded to tell
codephantom that it was spam and that you prefer people not to
respond. I figured that was okay since he already responded to
it.
btw, I sent you an email last week about some forum deletions
that some moderator may have gone overboard with, haven't gotten
a response yet.
