Re: [mailop] How stale is too stale for contacts?

2021-05-04 Thread Michael Rathbun via mailop
On Tue, 4 May 2021 10:50:22 -0600, Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: >I'd like to know if I'm off my rocker or if the person / company that >sent the message with the following excerpt is using purportedly once >good contact information /well/ /past/ it's best by date. In my experience, this will

Re: [mailop] How stale is too stale for contacts?

2021-05-04 Thread Matthew V via mailop
On 2021-05-04 12:50 p.m., Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: Hi mailop, I'd like to know if I'm off my rocker or if the person / company that sent the message with the following excerpt is using purportedly once good contact information /well/ /past/ it's best by date. Note:  This was the 2nd pa

Re: [mailop] How stale is too stale for contacts?

2021-05-04 Thread Tim Bray via mailop
On 04/05/2021 20:16, Al Iverson via mailop wrote: But on a 1-10 scale of spam problems, I'd call this one about a 1.5. I don't find it worthy of navel gazing. I got the same message.  It's from Hardenize.  I thought the contents were proper useful.   I don't care that I registered my account y

Re: [mailop] How stale is too stale for contacts?

2021-05-04 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Feels like two questions to ask and answer here. 1. Did the sender spam Grant? No. Grant signed up for this. Grant recognized the sender, recognized that he did sign up. 2. Did the sender spam others? We can't tell with certainty; we don't know how other recipients feel about this email. Sure, we

Re: [mailop] How stale is too stale for contacts?

2021-05-04 Thread Grant Taylor via mailop
On 5/4/21 12:42 PM, Andrew C Aitchison via mailop wrote: Are they offering you money or hoping you will give them some ? Neither. It was a 'Hey! We (finally) published something!' notification. They seem to be a start up security research company. They hadn't done /anything/ public that I'

Re: [mailop] How stale is too stale for contacts?

2021-05-04 Thread Andrew C Aitchison via mailop
On Tue, 4 May 2021, Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: Hi mailop, I'd like to know if I'm off my rocker or if the person / company that sent the message with the following excerpt is using purportedly once good contact information /well/ /past/ it's best by date. Note: This was the 2nd paragra

[mailop] How stale is too stale for contacts?

2021-05-04 Thread Grant Taylor via mailop
Hi mailop, I'd like to know if I'm off my rocker or if the person / company that sent the message with the following excerpt is using purportedly once good contact information /well/ /past/ it's best by date. Note: This was the 2nd paragraph in the email. The first was a shorter hi, here's