I would pass the full headers through spamcop.net. If it complains about forged headers or open relays, I would treat it as spam.
Also, try to put in a web log describing this incident, and see if there is a reply from the guy.
I don't think we should complain about relevant commercial approaches in such specific cases. I don't see how they can ever grow to the nuisance level that spam is, as they are too expensive to send.
Shachar
Shlomi Fish wrote:
I'm maintaining a weblog on Advogato:
http://www.advogato.org/person/shlomif/
In my recent entry I wrote something about having to prepare a presentation. In reply to this I received today this E-mail:
<<< From: "Jonty Pearce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [SPAM] Preparing a presentation Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 00:12:06 -0000
I just read on the weblog that you have to prepare a presentation.
You may find my self help website of use. I have developed it in my = spare time.
http://www.presentationhelper.co.uk/
If you find it useful perhaps you could add in a link to the site? I = get a lot of positive feedback but it is not very well covered on the = search engines.
Kind regards
Jonty
This E-mail was apparently sent from Outlook in both HTML and plaintext formats. The HTML does not contain any images, JavaScript or other things that can report I received this E-mail.
The URL is valid, and cannot indicate such a thing either. The site seems nice and all, albeit full of JavaScript and has a problem with looking on Konqueror. I did not thoroughly browse it there.
My question is: is it some kind of bulk E-mail? Is it possible this guy is monitoring weblog search engines for "presentation"-related keywords or phrases and sends E-mails to those who say so? I've received comments regarding my blog entries by E-mail before but it was then easy to distinguish it is not spam. This, OTOH, is a bit hard to tell.
It is possible that he either encountered the weblog entry because he lurks on weblogs, or because he searched for it and then sent the message after he saw it was relevant. The first case is OK, and the second one is gray area.
But I have and may have some comments on his site and so do not know whether I should respond to him. The worst thing that can happen is that I'll be placed on spammers' lists of valid E-mail addresses, which may or may not make a difference because my address is on the web in many places already, and I make no attempt to hide it.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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