This:
> Thank you for your email to dan...@kickidle.com...
> ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE AND HIT SEND.
> The long version:
> Thanks for your email! However, I now get over 150 spam emails a day.
> That's just too many to handle. And unfortunately, my automatic filters like
> to claim that mail from my family and friends is spam. So I have to double
> check all those messages to make sure I'm not actually ignoring my mom
> instead of the spam. Since I haven't setup your email address on my approved
> list yet (sorry!), you need to let me know you're not an evil spammer.
>
> Please don't change the subject line when you reply. The text in the subject
> tells my email server how to locate your message and forward it on to me.
>
> I know this is inconvenient ...
... but I'm going to do it anyway instead of spending a tiny bit of
effort myself, because it would be *your* effort, not mine, and *your*
time isn't important.
> If you don't reply within a few days, my email server will delete your
> message. I'll never get to read it. So please reply. Thanks!
>
> The headers of the message sent from your address are show below:
>
> From hates-software-bou...@siesta.unixbeard.net Tue Apr 03 07:08:21 2007
> ...
> List-Id: hates-software <hates-software.siesta.unixbeard.net>
The hateful software part of it is, of course, that the software decides
to waste the time of people posting to mailing lists to which its master
has subscribed by ignoring the List-Id header. But tbh, I hate Daniel
more than I hate his software.
--
David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age
You know you're getting old when you fancy the
teenager's parent and ignore the teenager
-- Paul M in uknot
