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Devil’s advocate here: tens of thausands of deaths in car accidents on roads all over the world - shame on Toyota, Ford, BMW and everyone else allowing people to use 5,000 pound of metal to kill each other. We should just stick to horse riding. Also - 100 deaths per year wordlwide related to children choking on bubble gum. Shame on Hubba Bubba for creating product that murders children!

Now to the definitions part: “True spammer” - someone who utilizes his services with only intent to maliciously message people. “Not true spammer” - someone with no spamming intention who for example lacks knowledge which keywords create spam alerts and hence his spam score goes up thru algorythms and ends up of flagging him a spamer.

Also extra knowledge for you, free of charge: emails posted publicly for example on someone websites are not directly protected so long as emailer can prove they got your email from public source. Further a large excemption was created by congress to for example exempt emergency services and politicians from being labeled spammers even if they do send unsolicited no opt-in messages.

Finally - so long as he doesnt advertise or encourage using his tool for spam, there is absolutely nothing morally wrong with the tool he wrote.

You welcome.



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