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On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Aggelos wrote: |
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> I would not define such a mail as spam. |
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> Aggelos |
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The relevant part of http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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This is a very risky thing to do, however, because the hackers' metric for |
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what is exciting probably differs from yours. Posting from the International |
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Space Station would qualify, for example, but posting on behalf of a |
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feel-good charitable or political cause would almost certainly not. In fact, |
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posting “Urgent: Help me save the fuzzy baby seals!” will reliably get you |
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shunned or flamed even by hackers who think fuzzy baby seals are important. |
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