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On 10-jun-04, at 12:52, Ann Barcomb wrote: > Vacation programs should also keep some kind of log of people who have > been notified about this vacation. A reply once every 24-hours or so > per person is quite enough; I don't need a reply for every single > email. I've written a vacation program myself once, and I considered once quite enough. I'd hate to get the same message every day.. > > I also got mail from a spam-blocking program that expects me to verify > the letter before the address can be approved. Do your own whitelist > work--the letter was sent by an automated script in response to the > user making a request in a webform. Thank heavens for mail servers that have loop detection. I've seen servers go "you authenticate" "no, YOU authenticate" to each other until they got the kill -9... > Then there was one of those mails informing me that I have sent > a virus. This is some of the worst spam, because the anti-virus > companies are just trying to tell you how great their software is. > They know as well as I do that the email address is spoofed. I always make it a point to send a polite phrased message to the mail admins, telling them in friendly terms what I'm going to repleat in plain words here: they look like incompetent dorks and total fuckwits for having selected said piece of shit. And I urge them to complain loudly to their supplier for having made them a) look like a douchebag, b) adding to the problem of spam, and c) for advertising a bogus product without compensation. Sometimes it's really funny when a company is an IT service provider, in that case I can add some choice statements about selecting them as a supplier... I figure if the anti-virus companies may, at some point in time, get a clue this way. The best way to get rid of crap is cause pain to whoever selected it. -John
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