Blog Not Needed

So yesterday I decided to send out a newsletter to all those folks who signed up at Diysearch. The mailing went quite well, and I got some very friendly responses from some kind souls, because well, there is kindness out there.

As a good and responsible webmaster, I provided an unsubscribe link at the bottom of the newsletter, because well, that’s just the right thing to do. And that link actually WORKS and it does REMOVE folks. But I get this response, we’ll call him “Service”.

“Service” decides in his or her own obvious years and years of internet experience that I am a spammer. I mean clearly they recognized the fact that the email address as the “from” was my actual email address (dpalmer at diysearch dot com) or that in the email headers I didn’t bounce the message around a dozen or so zombie machines to hide where it originated from. I mean, clearly anyone who has been on the net for 4 or maybe 5 hours would know that the lack of these things means that the message is clearly from a real person and not a spammer, right?

I mean anyone with 2 maybe possibly 3 IQ points could recognized that? Yes?

Well, I think I found one of those rare few who can’t quite figure this stuff out. Too bad really. I’m glad they are gone. I don’t suffer fools lightly. Its not in my nature.