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Re: A nice spam service

1997-07-29 12:02:00
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997 13:40:40 -0400, Philo <philo(_at_)Radix(_dot_)Net> said:
At 12:24 PM 7/29/97 -0400, Roderick Schertler wrote:

I copy people by default because the mailing list I use most
(perl5-porters) encourages this as standard practice (it speeds
up the conversation between the interested parties, yet allows
everyone else to follow along).

If you don't like getting duplicates why not just fix the problem for
yourself?  Drop duplicates on your end and they will never bother you
again.

Isn't this the argument usually used by spammers? If you don't like
it- just delete it. Meanwhile, the spam still takes up bandwidth.

Well, no, though if you can't see it after reading the first paragraph
up there I'm not sure if I can help you to understand.  The copies are
desired by the recipients because they serve a useful purpose.

I don't buck people's desires intentionally, and if there's a mailing
list whose readers I know generally don't like copies I try to remember
to behave that way on all posts to that list.  However, since there's
not one correct behavior I'm sure to get it wrong some of the time.

FWIW, I'm a member of the "if you post a question here, you have to
come here to get the answer" camp. Otherwise, why subscribe to mailing
lists at all? Just shoot your question into the dark. Of course, with
nobody subscribed, nobody will see it...

That's not relevant, we're not talking about "I can't be bothered to
read this list, so mail me the answers to my questions."  Why do you
mention it?

-- 
Roderick Schertler
roderick(_at_)argon(_dot_)org