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[John Berninger <john AT ncphotography.com>]

Cristóbal Palmer wrote:
> For those of you with Earthlink accounts: messages like the one below
> are frustrating and bothersome. They're also a source of backscatter.
> Eg. see this old-ish forum post:
>
> http://www.webservertalk.com/archive154-2005-2-933150.html
>
> Please just get a gmail account. Gmail is awesome all around, but it
> especially kicks butt at dealing with spam. I have a very public email
> address that is all over the internet and yet I still only get about
> two spam messages a day that I have to manually tag as spam, vs.
> 100-300 spam messages that hit my spam trap on any given weekday.
> Impressive
Actually, IMHO, these types of messages are themselves spam and should 
be reported as such.  They're just as offensive and unnecessary as an 
Outlook vacation auto-responder that says "I've gone home to the wife 
for the day - be back tomorrow at 8 am!" (and yes, I've gotten those 
types of auto-responses as well).  Anytime I get an auto-response like 
this, I do in fact treat it as spam and report it as such.

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John