Re: stopping my spamming

OK, so I am posting anonymously too because basically my advice is to cheat your boss (I don't think _my_ boss would appreciate ;--).

How technically knowledgeable is your boss? Could you just not send the emails to ISPs that have banned you, but generate the returns to the postmaster anyway? Send just 1/10th, or 1/100th of the mails you are supposed to send (sendmail is Open Source after all, youre just a patch and a recompile away from a non-spamming version of the tool, I am sure you could find plenty of people who would do this for you).

Finally: do you really want to keep a job at a company that seems on its way to being in real trouble with the law? How long do you think this company will be in business for? And if they don't listen to you, maybe the authorities will?

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Re: Re: stopping my spamming by Anonymous Monk on Nov 20, 2002 at 14:46 UTC
how technically knowledgeable is he? well, in a scale of 1 to 10 he's 1.5 I may say. I already cut down the list to 60,000 out of a peaked 120,000 and from what I see, this saturday the list might become a small 20,000 (without them knowin of course) but still, the whole idea of administring a spam sending server. as for the law, we are not in the US, and where we are, online laws do not exist, so I couldn't count on that.	[reply]
Re^3: (nrd) stopping my spamming by newrisedesigns (Curate) on Nov 20, 2002 at 14:58 UTC
If you can't use the law, use the bottom line. Sending Spam is bad PR, and most thinking warm bodies reject spam and the person/company that sends it. John J Reiser newrisedesigns.com	[reply]