Re: [OT] junk mail/postings (was Re: bullwhip video)

"Arthur J. O'Dwyer" <ajonospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:Pine.LNX.4.60-041.0607111057480.1672@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:


On Mon, 11 Jul 2006, chuckcar wrote:

Just to end it (as you apparently would like I guess) I've noticed
these type of postings in the last 6 months or so. Before that there
*was* the occasional one where someone actually responded to the
replies to it, but mostly it's just the one "provoking" so to speak
post and then never a followup. Besides look at the email address on
the OP - faked as all heck.

I'd like to end this thread too, but you keep making obviously
incorrect statements...
Yes, generally nobody responds to spam, so there's no "follow-up"
in that sense. But of course we keep getting spam, as you've observed.
That's strong circumstantial evidence that not-replying does not lead
to lack-of-spam. (It does, however, lead to lack-of-offtopic-threads
and therefore a higher S/N ratio.)

Nothing at all to do with my point, which was quite different.

And no, "cliffhangernow96@xxxxxxxxx" is definitely not a faked
e-mail
address, especially since the guy's website is www.cliffhangernow.com
(which is real, I just checked).

And that site is hosted by Yahoo? of course it isn't - making my point
the true one. And you *know* the email is valid? I seriously doubt that.
It's just junk mail. Not spam which is and always will be flooding
someones mailbox with numerous copies of the same message.


<pseudo-old-fogey-yammer> I'm amazed that anyone would fail to
recognize the "skaterboi83@xxxxxxxxx" style of e-mail address; I seem
to recall it used to be that people /with/ that kind of address were
treated like Johnny-come-latelies. </yammer>
Besides, given that you (Chuckcar) post under the handle
"chuckcar",
you really haven't earned the privilege of making fun of other
people's e-mail addresses. ;)

-Arthur

Ignoring rebutting the things you mention which were dealt with in
earlier posts (something I will continue to do here) The reason for my
"email" address is three-fold 1. I use xnews and use it to mark articles
replied to mine by that name and as such I need something relatively
unique. Shortly after I started using one based on my first name,
someone else with my first name started posting in groups I use, making
my "email" pointless to weed out messages replied to. I then had to
change it because of this. I changed it to a derivation of a LISP
expression (my tagline) that has literally an undefined meaning.

--
(setq (chuck nil) car(chuck) )
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