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[MailPush] RE: Example of the behavior of a good netizen mailing list
[To Linux-IL participants: the following is after his response to a
recent E-mail message which I sent him, and which contained an example
of a Majordomo listserver request for confirming a subscription
request.]
Hello Ariel,
> In response to your request we decided to implement your suggestions and for
> that purpose asked for your help. You declined to help us in implementing
> your request. I was very surprised when that happened since it seemed to
> contradict common logic.
As long as your company is not implementing the opt-in approach, it is
SPAMMER and I cannot permit myself to help a spammer.
It is true that your company would be less of nuisance if it were to
implement the "Precedence:" based filtering mechanism, but without the
opt-in mechanism, your company would nevertheless be a spammer.
> We then tried to subscribe to the Linux IL mailing list to learn try and
> create the solution. I signed up (sent a message to the subscribe address)
> for the list and it never registered me.
I am not surprised by this. There is a filter which blocks anything from
MailPush from getting distributed to the Linux-IL mailing list - it was
installed after negotiations between you and other members of the Linux-IL
mailing list broke down due to your company's stupidity and/or arrogance
and/or blatant disregard of netiquette.
> If you refuse to assist us in helping you and the Mailing list does not
> function either.
I am willing to assist in implementing solutions which will completely
stop your company from sending E-mail messages to people who didn't
solicit them and do not want to receive them - no matter if those E-mail
messages were due to personal E-mail or to E-mail sent by mailing lists.
> We thus concluded our efforts to that effect.
Until the next time a clueless customer of yours subscribes to an Internet
based mailing list without blocking confirmation messages...
By the way, the enclosed signature may interest you. Every E-mail message
which I send to publicly-available mailing lists on the Internet (some of
which are gatewayed with Usenet newsgroups) contains this signature. The
word 'MailPush' shall stay on the signature until your company implements
an opt-in mechanism and commits never to send unsolicited E-mail to people
under any circumstances at all.
I also develop some Open Source software (under the GNU copyleft). In
source code files, which contain E-mail addresses of contributors, I put a
similar warning as well (including the word MailPush). This means that
the word 'MailPush' will probably be associated with
objectionable&unsolicited E-mail for very long time (as long as my Open
Source software will be in use) - unless your company acts very fast to
implement opt-in filtering and stops sending unsolicited E-mail messages.
If you claim that this is a blackmail - then I confirm that it is a
blackmail. I am doing this after all more reasonable approaches (by me
and by other people) to persuade you to get your company to observe
netiquette have been exhausted.
--- Omer
WARNING:
By sending me unsolicited commercial/political/religious/MailPush
E-mail message/s (known also as "spam"), you irrevocably agree to
pay me US$500.- (plus any legal expenses incurred by my trying to
collect the amount due) per unsolicited commercial/political/
religious/MailPush E-mail message - for the service of receiving it.