March 21, 2004
If SPAM wasn't enough

It's annoying when you have people who get Joe Job emails "from" you, and reply to them yelling at you. This is what the idiot Mrlawnn@aol.com did. Replies to some SPAM he got, saying "take me off your list ass hole". Of course, I responded calling him an idiot. First, you never reply to a SPAM. It only verifies your address if the spammer was stupid enough to include their real email address as the reply-to or from. Of course, this doesn't happen, so when you do this you just end up yelling at someone who has nothing to do with the SPAM, and have done nothing useful whatsoever. As well, you can look at the headers to get an idea of where the email actually came from, and contact the ISP if you wish. This guy obviously has no clue how spammers SPAM, or he wouldn't have yelled at me. Then again, he is an AOL user... which explains a lot.

Posted by Kevin at March 21, 2004 03:14 PM
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I know at least a few very smart people who use AOL, but their computer skills do seem limited.

Which is the correct spelling?
Brain dead AOLer
Brain-dead-AOLer
BraindeadAOLer

I'm not sure if it's actually become a word yet.

Posted by: Jim Pryke on March 23, 2004 12:03 PM

Smart and cluefullness don't go hand in hand :-)

I like "BraindeadAOLer", but wonder if they could sue if AOL is in caps!

Posted by: Kevin on March 23, 2004 12:15 PM
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