Good As You

Goood, what a drama-queen. If you don't want to hear from someone, just delete their e-mails and stop sending more back, it's that simple.

Agreed, anon.

And we of course could have also stopped. But when one up and determines that what had previously been a cordial enough web chat has all of a sudden turned into "spam"? Well, we don't take kindly to that.

This must be the work of some half-witted robo mailer like the "out of office" software.

Whoever wrote this little self-fulfilling program just didn't think it through. That's funny!

Dave: It's nothing robo. It's our emailer writing from a personal account.

Not much to add here.. maybe someone was looking over his shoulder and he wanted that person to think he doesn't correspond with you.

Actually just leaving a comment cuz you switched the boxes so I clicked on the Who Wrote This... love you new little bio.. its a keeper... as are you.

Plainly, this individual is a sphincter. That is, in particular, one that wants to dispense intellectual 'goodies' without having to receive any kind of response. Sigh. So many broom handles, so little time.

On a related subject, the level of cowardice among conservative blog trolls is remarkable. These testicularly challenged guys (and some gals) love to use various comment sections as their intellectual toilets, but can't bring themselves to sign their full, real name to their droppings. To wit, "marriage is the house that God built, and the sodomites are termites!!" -signed okied0kie123. That's an example, but you kinda get what I mean.

I don't doubt that it's coming from the same personal account, but it just seems so mechanical.
All four of the responses look like canned templates that could be sent to anyone on an incoming target list.

But as Dennis Miller says, "Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong."

Yea, no, I think it's just written to look that way.

I wish I could give more details about the chat prior to that point -- but it was agreed to be off-record.

I found Today's Pearl:

"So many broom handles, so little time."

Larry S. - you get a star for that one!

I don't doubt that it's coming from the same personal account, but it just seems so mechanical.
All four of the responses look like canned templates that could be sent to anyone on an incoming target list.

But as Dennis Miller says, "Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong."

Oops. Sorry about the replication - I don't even know how I did that.

Well just don't let it happen again, dave, or I'll report you to the authorities for spamming!! ;-)

Jeremy, he's clearly over-reacting but you are obviously trying to push his buttons. You should have just stopped emailing him. I love you but you get no sympathy here.

Andy: Fortunately for me, I'm not seeking sympathy.

But no, I wasn't really "pushing his buttons." Up until this point we had a nice back-and-forth with no contention. The sudden flip caught me off guard -- but rather than question or react angrily to it, I simply responded to his initial message about not wanting to continue chatting by writing back a cordial, agreeable goodbye. At that point, he kept sending me more messages telling me that he was done sending me anymore messages. Each time, other than the one where my genuine reaction to the absurdity was an "LOL," I simply continued to agree to his terms, thinking I was putting a close on the exchange. After all, if one tells you they're done chatting, then all they have to do is accept the goodbye and move on. Or he even could have blocked my email. But he did not. Instead, he kept cluttering my Inbox with empty accusations and increasing threats.

If he weer to write me again to say that he had "reported" me, I would again say, "Okay. Take care." And that response would not be "button-pushing" -- it would be a frank reaction to a sent message, something I always offer to anyone who writes this site.