> He takes your e-mail address and sends you spam,
> at least that's my view on the whole "spam" issue.
I think, if someone were after email addresses for spamming purposes, he
wouldn't come to a sleepy little group like this one, where at best he
can expect to collect a few dozen addresses anyway, and with an offer
that makes it this uninteresting to reply (who'd want to appear quoted
in some local newspaper with a three liner like "Mr. X from Y, working
as Z, says '...I race online because my TV is broken...'" while Mr. Y
from W says 'yadda yadda yadda'" and then spend so much time to make it
sound credible (with all the background info, phone no's etc.)
Spammers work in quantities where they expect 1 return from 1000
messages sent out. If he were to collect his addresses in such a
painstaking way, he wouldn't be making any money :)
Mr. Bray's request was an honest one I think. Just not one many will
bother to reply to I guess (I haven't, for the above mentioned reason),
but I wish him luck with it. It's good to see our hobby in the press.
Achim
