We got a spam message yesterday on the UUG site. The post was entered into the Suggestion Box, which has the instructions, "You may submit constructive (or good, old-fashioned destructive) criticism using the following form. Should you choose to include your email address, it will not be posted anywhere on the spam-bot infested web."
How you can talk yourself into entering in an advertisement for a keyboard layout is beyond me. Seems to me like someone is really desparate for attention. Anyway, I was able to track down his email address and sent a response to him. Showing an unexpected level of politeness for a dirty spammer, he emailed me back.
I include the whole thread for your enjoyment.
I think he may have used the wrong word to describe his message. I think of SPAM as a message used to profit the sender in someway. In which way does a FREE tool used to improve keyboard efficiency profitable? (Unless it has spyware, in which case he should be banished to Hades!)
I do think his message would have done better in the mailing list, as a suggestion to fellow computer users, probably even better in the UTWAA mailing list, as it is a Windows application, but I do not see it as SPAM. Just my personal opinion.
I must say your response was quite funny to read though. ;-)
Kenneth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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