Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/01/29/15:31:19
In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 980129111952 DOT 6822O-100000 AT is>, eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
says...
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>On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Neither wrote:
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>> >P.S.: It's extremely impolite to hide your email address if you want
>> >people to be able to reply to you.
>>
>> Sorry, I didn't know it was impolite to hide my address, but I hope
>> that this will be aparent without allowing spam in.
>
>It is impolite (to say the least) because it means that to you, your
>mailbox is more precious than the mailboxes of those who are trying to
>help you. If people like John Aldrich, Nate Eldredge and others who
>make this forum shine with its user support would care about spam as
>much as you do, they would never post a single message, and you won't
>be having this help. The fact that they do post a lot should serve as
>evidence that the spam is not as bad as it might look.
>
>Please also keep in mind that people who reply to lots of messages
>cannot afford reading all the headers to detect anti-spammed addresses
>and delete them when they reply. Fake addresses make the replies
>bounce, which wastes bandwidth and annoys people (some of use need to
>pay for the mail we get by volume). Since all you need to do with
>spam is to press that "Delete" button after seeing the subject, do you
>still think avoiding it is worth all this trouble into which you are
>dragging all the good souls here?
Guys, you're getting worked up for no reason. Anti-spam/fake email-address
are here to stay. Moaning about the technical issues aren't going to do you
a bit of good,because most of the people who use these addresses don't
really care about them. They're not getting spam in their mailboxes for the
most part and that's all that really matters to them.
Just relax and learn to live with it. Nothing going to change for the most
part.
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