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Re: [Off-Topic] Who/What is flowserve.com? (A Report to Sender

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• Subject: Re: [Off-Topic] Who/What is flowserve.com? (A Report to Sender Bogosity)
• From: Arjun Ray <aray@n...>
• Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 22:48:45 +0000
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"Wayne Steele" <xmlmaster@h...> wrote:

| I can understand your shock and alarm,

Exasperation, actually.  

| but wouldn't your complaints be better heard through the proper channels?

Possibly.  But I don't fancy writing back to a bot.

| I see that your email address is at nyct.net, which appears to be an ISP 
| in  New York City. This looks like a "service" they offer their customers.

NYCT has nothing to do with this.  The bot that generated this notice is
at flowserve.com, not at nyct.net.  Someone is subscribed to this list in
a fashion such that the list distribution passes through flowserve.com for
delivery.  Quite possibly the bot's *intended* recipient is this someone.
Possibly also the bot can't tell the difference between private email (in
which case a notification to the originator might be appropriate) and a
mailing list distribution.  I don't know.

What I do know is that the old days are over, where one could pursue this
in private email with a reasonable chance of addressing someone clueful. 

Stupidities like this continue to occur because people *don't* know and
*don't* care.  Maybe *public* ridicule and opprobrium - the clue-by-four
that seems increasingly necessary these days - could make a difference.

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