31 Mar
2001
31 Mar
'01
6:24 a.m.
No, you forwarded *my* message responding to the spam-solicitation to UUNET, and asked them to take action against *me*. I have the complete headers. The reason I wrote about it is because it shows, as an online society, how hypersensitive we've become to spam. It requires all three people in the spam-complaint chain to overreact: You (accidentally, you say), uunet (intentionally), and my provider (intentionally, probably). Different actions by any of them would have derailed the spamcident. Frankly, I've also been meaning to send out my econlib.org column for a while, and this gave me an excuse to mention it. Better ways of dealing with spam can avoid this in the future. -Declan