I Pissed Off A PR Spammer Today

I guess the reason I don't have a popular tech blog is because I would have just devnulled these guys in my .procmailrc instead of tweeting, getting into an argument, and writing a long article about how much time email wastes. Some day... some day...

Summary: "I had heated exchange with a spammer, since I am Arrington and I wrote this on TC; it must be very important news."

Typical TC. Manufactured drama.

This is exactly the same weird response that the first generation of email and usenet spammers gave me when I complained to them (they hadn't learned to forge "From:" addresses at first) directly: shut up or we'll spam you even more.

There must be some psychopathy that you have to have to start spamming, or that you develop after spamming. The responses are illogical in the same way every time.

Spammers need to be tried, found guilty, and punished.

Has anyone here used a service like prMac and found it worthwhile?

I'm about to launch my first Mac app and I'm struggling to apply myself to the marketing aspects and would love to just get on with coding my next idea; so I was thinking of using prMac but now it doesn't seem like such a great idea...