Re: Just letting you know I'm here

Sqwertz wrote:
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:10:39 -0500, Steve Calvin wrote:

Sqwertz wrote:
Steve Calvin wrote:
Ed Pawlowski wrote:
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You will find the folks here to be amazingly talented and extremely
helpful. I have.

That may be true, but Sosios will never be heard from again.
Oh sure "he" will be... in a few days when his spam post appears. Sadly,
people will probably reply to that as well...
I just don't see any logic at all in this argument. Assuming he didn't post followups, there is just no sense manually harvesting email addresses like this when you can have a computer harvest them automatically for free and obtain 500x as many valid addresses.

You can also harvest the activity of the group using any news service automatically. There's no reason to post to it to "test the waters".

I emailed him when I thought he wasn't going to return. I asked him why he posted in the first place just because I was curious. So we;ll see if *I* get any spam.
huh? what arguement?

What are *you* talking about. Argument?

I was just stating that when the spam post with link appears that people will reply to it like trained sock puppets.

I was responding to yours and Ed's claim that he is harvesting email
addresses or preparing to spam the group. That's just nonsense.
There's no pattern or any noticeable history of anybody doing what
you claim.

-sw

I claimed/said absolutely nothing of the sort. I DID say that a spam post would likely follow and be replied to... thereby perpetuating the
spammers cause... but whatever - let's just move on down the road a piece and see what happens... ;-)

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Steve
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