The spammer, Michael Hallager wrote:
Repeat: NO ONE who got emailed today was added to any mailing list !! (Without requesting it).
It was ONLY AN INVITATION to a small group of targetted people, who's email addresses were in my address book.
So each of us who were spammed by you now have to respond individually to this list to show that it was more than a "small number"?
Please people, with p-pills, mortgage applications, pirated MS software yada yada, why the need to take out your frustrations on a local known specialised e-commerce business?
Because Michael, you are a spammer and your spam is as obnoxious as any of the other spams that you refer to.
Despite having my email address all over the place, I receive maybe once a month only an unsolicited professional email offering me something relevant and I find many of these useful or I simply delete.
So because you choose to respond positively to spam, you: a) Think that you have the right to spam others b) Don't mind getting more spam yourself since you help spammers success
I have publically apologised several times and still I get emails suggesting that I should "apologise".
You spammed me, personally. You have not apologised to me personally. You have said that I have to get in touch with you in order to get my name off your mailing list. That is not the way I operate. I have lodged spam compaints with your upstream provider and your registrar.
Could it be that this is way out of proportion? I am still sorry and disapointed that some people have taken this in an unintended way.
No, it is not way out of proportion. If you choose to harvest email addresses from a mailing list and use those addresses to propogate spam, then you must face the consequences from people who hate spam. For my part, I will inform as many people as I can that they should never deal with networkstuff or Michael Hallager on the basis that he is a spammer. <plonk> Keith Davidson