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by jt2190 4438 days ago
I downvoted this message because it assumed that _asciiker_ was a bad actor who wanted to deliver spam, rather than assume that the he was perhaps misinformed about the best way to avoid delivering unwanted messages. It ignored the context of the original post (someone managing email servers for an ISP) and assumed that he was creating the spam messages directly. It took what could have been a reasonable thread about managing email and polarized it into a pro/anti spam thread.

(edit: Replaced "parent poster" with username of poster, to avoid confusion.)

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I'm the parent author. I didn't use "you" referring to _asciiker_. It was plural you, not singular you, referring to "you damn spammers" as a third person, not "you _asciiker_".

I will henceforth carefully choose my pronouns.