I thought twice about sending this, mostly from the "should I contribute
more to the signal/noise damage I've created", but wanted to clarify:
* The smiley at the end was intentional and deliberate; without
it, it makes me seem upset. With it, I hoped to express only
that "it wasn't cool" not "OHMIGOD! PERL4LIB IS EVIIIIILLL!".
The "name-calling" was not meant to be knife-in-the-back,
but a poke-in-the-rib.
* My take on spam is jovial, not anger, something I've written
about before: http://www.disobey.com/dnn/2003/01/index.shtml#001433
In re-reading, I still agree with everything I said.
* The fact that I got a spam on something I'm interested in
should make me happy - it is, in fact, something I'm interested
in (I like movies, I want to know about new movies; I like magazines,
I want more free subscriptions; I'm researching cataloging, bring
on the catalog emails). The fact that it was unsolicited (and
HTML) were the only negatives.
* My initial question ("has anyone else gotten...") was intended
as a gauge to the level of unsolicited: if EVERYONE had seen
something from this guy, then it was probably a web scrape
of some sort (as Ed suggested). But the exact targeting
of the email to my question suggested a more focused,
human-controlled-yet-automated mailing (suggesting also
a designed-for-this-purpose application, or a mailing list
or archive reader/lurker). I wouldn't have sent an email
*whatsoever* if I had received something that said "hey
morbus, saw your question $here. look at $this! only
$price for $x months! yeah, baby, yeah!".
With that said to sandwich my public OT, I'll hush on the matter -
continued discussion, if any, is welcome to email me privately.
--
Morbus Iff ( i put the demon back in codemonkey )
Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.gamegrene.com/
My book, Spidering Hacks: http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596005776/
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