Well you are partly right. Of course we would like people to behave like we want to, but the Reality is that People behave as they want to and if you cannot impose your criteria.
I thought of a funny joke: George W. Bush appears one day on TV giving his personal phone number to those who would like to contribute to his re-election. The next week he appears again begging people not to call him anymore about other matters of his policy. Who's reponsible of his suffering? Please, let me tell you a little bit of Psicology. Only a 25% of the population has a "intenal control locus", that means, that they are selfconfident and responsible of their acts, not depending on others to put the blame on or to justify what's happening to themselves. The other 75% do the opposite. If there are unhappy, it is his father who didn't love him to much, or if they are poor, it is his familiy which was poor. Talking about SPAM, a person who made public his address and expected anybody to write him, but only to send love letters, for instance, could act as it follows when SPAM is received: * A guy with "external control locus": Put the blame on the people, who should have known what kind of letters he was expecting. Blame authorities, blame the Internet, blame his bad luck, blame this horrible life. * A guy with "internal control locus": Well, if I don't want to receive SPAM, I will post a temporary email address rather than the real one, and forward the email from the temporary to the real one. I will close the temporary one when I get enough love letters or no one, or lots of SPAM. Summarizing: Nobody is going to take care of you, but yourself. Cheers! ----- Mensaje original ----- De: "James J Farmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Enviado: viernes, 24 de mayo de 2002 11:35 Asunto: Re[2]: [spamcon-general] Fraud involving my domain name - any action I can take? Alfredo G�mez Grande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, How do a spammer get your email address? > > Well, he goes to a PUBLIC source like THE INTERNET and GET IT. Often. Sometimes spammers will guess email addresses (the so-called "dictionary attack"), but most spam goes to addresses harvested from one place or another. Let me tell you a story... about ten years ago, I ran a small business from home selling computer software. In order to do this, I published my home address as part of a small advert in a magazine. Yet not one person came to my house and urinated in my biscuit tin. Why not? I'd made my address public, hadn't I? > If you make it PUBLIC, you are subjected to the rules of being PUBLIC, > aren't you? Where are these "rules" written down? When did I agree to them? > And about your comments: Anybody is going to scrawl your house with > graffiti. You can defend your property, even with weapons (only US). But we > are talking about mailboxes so let's don't go beyond the limits of the > Reality. Quite right; there is a very finite amount of wall-space in your house for graffiti. But you may be right; perhaps we all should opt-out of the spammers' lists. A spam plopped into my emailbox as I was writing this, so let's put your theories to the test. The spam goes: From: UK Prank Calls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Play Hilarious Prank Calls Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 19:09:13 +0100 To play hilarious prank calls, which now includes a download of celebrity voice samples, so you can now create you own celebrity prank calls! Please visit http://ukprankcalls.com I have no idea who "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is but it isn't me. Oh well. No removal instructions... but perhaps if I email Mr [EMAIL PROTECTED], he might remove me from his list? A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. The following address(es) failed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SMTP error from remote mailer after end of data: host mx2.mail.yahoo.com [64.157.4.82]: 554 delivery error: dd This user doesn't have a yahoo.com account ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - mta619.mail.yahoo.com Obviously not. So the "removal" instructions must be on his website, right? Apparently not. One would almost think that his spammer didn't want me to remove myself from his mailing list... James. -- James J. Farmer Venue: University of Birmingham, School of Computer Science Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~jjf/ _______________________________________________ spamcon-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.spamcon.org/mailman/listinfo/spamcon-general#subscribers Subscribe, unsubscribe, etc: Use the URL above or send "help" in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ spamcon-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.spamcon.org/mailman/listinfo/spamcon-general#subscribers Subscribe, unsubscribe, etc: Use the URL above or send "help" in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
