Hi David, * David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> [2007-04-03 15:15]: > This: > > > Thank you for your email to dan...@kickidle.com... > > ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE AND HIT SEND. > > The long version: > > Thanks for your email! However, I now get over 150 spam > > emails a day. That's just too many to handle. And > > unfortunately, my automatic filters like to claim that mail > > from my family and friends is spam. So I have to double check > > all those messages to make sure I'm not actually ignoring my > > mom instead of the spam. Since I haven't setup your email > > address on my approved list yet (sorry!), you need to let me > > know you're not an evil spammer.
I have taken to active countermeasures now: a) I DO NOT respond to the challenge when the mail is legit. b) I ALWAYS respond to the challenge when the mail is spam. I figure that these people are asking me to send a spam mail straight to their inbox and providing me with all the tools to do it, so who am I to refuse? And what's a little whitelist pollution between friends, y'know? I'll gladly help out a pal. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
