Since no one else has thrown in on your side, I thought I'd toss in my 2 Yen. I personally think the response was rediculous, and maybe PM is a little trigger happy.

I'll shoot from the hip myself and guess that any medium sized company could have a mailing list of 50,000 addresses...and be more common than Spamers. I work for a company with 20 people and even we have a couple thousand addresses just for our customers, not counting our potential clients.

Even though I've never had any problems with Spam mail, I could certainly understand some caution...but /msg-ing in chatbox and then saying you still don't believe him?

-Lexicon

In reply to Re: Some thoughts about this. by Lexicon
in thread Sorting a list by frequency of items by yojimbo

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