I got an e-mail earlier today, which said the following:
My email address is protected by Mail Authorization and Permission System (MAPS). You must register to email me. Registration is quick and easy and you need only register once to be added to my white list, thereafter you should have no problems emailing me. This is not unlike the authorization procedure in many instant messaging clients.
Ah, yes, yet another of those systems which say "Oh, look, I got spam. Here, why don't you sort it for me instead of me training my system to do it myself?"
So, in accordance with my long-standing policy of "Never register my e-mail address to allow legitimate mail to go through, and always confirm messages that are spam," I happily confirmed the spam-bounce Andrew was getting from one of my mailman mailing lists, so he'd get the junk in his mailbox.
He then sends me (or rather, the mailman owner address) a message telling me I've been "blacklisted" from his server (oh no!!) ... so I replied. Except this time I replied using my normal address, saying how those types of systems are bad by shifting the burden to innocent people instead of the recipient of the message, and explaining my normal policy stated above.
I then violated my normal policy by clicking that "yup, I sent this," so he would get my message.
His response to that was, first and foremost, to the "blacklisting", "You are now, asshole." ... then he calls me a "jerk off" and tells me to "Fuck off - talk to the people originating the problem, not me!"
I replied to him again, from a different e-mail address this time (at some point, Andrew will realize that I have about ten e-mail addresses in as many domains that I could use at will, let alone if I was to start using @yahoo.com or @gmail.com addresses). I explained to him that I was talking to the people originating the problem, because the problem was his misguided system which had sent me mail that I didn't ask for.
I wonder what new obscenities Andrew will send my way this time? Here's his e-mail address Andrew@DeFaria.com if anyone wants to help explain to him how stupid his spam-fighting strategy is. Updated: He sent me his vCard, so if you want any other information about him, feel free.
WTF is Andrew DeFaria?