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Re: OT: answering spammers

From Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
Subject Re: OT: answering spammers
Date 2013-05-17 11:03 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <kn5gk4$irf$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References <aeac731a-39ed-4fb2-ad1e-666b2c80de93@googlegroups.com> <kn2tae$u1k$1@dont-email.me> <519634BC.2040501@arnowelzel.de>

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On 5/17/2013 9:46 AM, Arno Welzel wrote:
> Am 16.05.2013 17:21, schrieb Jerry Stuckle:
>
>> On 5/16/2013 10:58 AM, susheel kumar wrote:
>> <spam>
>>
>> I don't respond to spammers - especially ones who use a gmail address.
>
> Yes, you do. Or is this what you wrote here not a "respond"? How do you
> describe this? "Just couldn't resist hacking my keyboard and by accident
> a posting occured"? ;-)
>

Calling them out is not responding to them.  But then trolls don't know 
the difference.

>> If you were a real recruiter, you would:
> [...]
>
> And if you were really concerned about the negative side effects of spam
> in newsgroups, you would just ignore it. Do you really think, your
> comments will change *anything*?
>
> BTW: Without your reply I wouldn't even have noticed that a spammer
> tried to post something to comp.lang.php - his posting was not delivered
> to individual.de - maybe they have a working spam filter ;-)
>
> F'up to poster, since this is already off topic here. Thanks for
> respecting this.
>

I really don't care if you saw the message or not.  But I do know that 
ignoring something does NOT make it go away.  But then neither spammers 
nor trolls like to be called out.

Why are you defending the spammers?

And fup changed back to the newsgroup.  I'm not ashamed of my answers 
and will not carry on a private conversation with a troll.


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Re: Immediate Position:::Business Analyst With BI EXP::::At Houston, TX Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-05-16 11:21 -0400
  Re: Immediate Position:::Business Analyst With BI EXP::::At Houston, TX "Sanders Kaufman" <bucky@kaufman.net> - 2013-05-16 10:57 -0500
    Re: Immediate Position:::Business Analyst With BI EXP::::At Houston, TX Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-05-16 12:24 -0400
  OT: answering spammers (was: Re: Immediate Position:::Business Analyst With BI EXP::::At Houston,   TX) Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2013-05-17 15:46 +0200
    Re: OT: answering spammers Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-05-17 11:03 -0400
      Re: OT: answering spammers Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2013-05-17 19:10 +0200
        Re: OT: answering spammers Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-05-17 19:45 -0400
          Re: OT: answering spammers Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2013-05-18 05:19 -0700
          Re: OT: answering spammers Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2013-05-20 08:43 +0200
  Re: Immediate Position:::Business Analyst With BI EXP::::At Houston, TX Evan Platt <evan@theobvious.espphotography.com.invalid> - 2013-05-17 07:05 -0700

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