Stupid Pinhead Watch: SpamZa Boy Defends Himself

The person behind SpamZa has apparently been trying to post comments on various blogs defending his failed, idiotic scheme to set up a Web site allowing people to input others’ e-mail addresses to be signed up for possibly hundreds of unwanted e-mails a day from newsletters.

SpamZa.com was up for a very short time this summer before it was shut down by its service provider. SpamZa.com has recently come back online, but it’s difficult to tell what its purpose is this time.

Meanwhile, according to e-mail deliverability consultant Laura Atkins, someone apparently behind SpamZa has attempted to post a comment on her blog Word to the Wise defending the scheme.

“SpamZa was actually quite funny,” the commenter wrote, according to Atkins. “I don’t understand why people hated us so much. We merely signed people to a few newsletters. Oh no, not this! Some people are getting raped as I am typing this, pedophiles are distributing children pornography almost entirely freely, people are getting murdered by gangs in about every single major town in the world, people die of hunger, illnesses and war everywhere on earth and your priority is a dumb newsletter websites.

“You are really pathetic. I’m pointing at you, so-called “knights of the internet”. FYI, I donate my Christmas bonus (I do have a job, and an important one) to charity. What do YOU do? Get a life.”

Actually, SpamZa Boy—May I call you SpamZa Boy? Because the tone and complete lack of reasoned argument in your post reveals you as anywhere from 12 to 17 years old.

You see SpamZa Boy, Atkins is a productive member of society. She helps businesses get their e-mail practices cleaned up so they can get their marketing efforts delivered, hopefully make some profits and hire a few people. She is an economic net positive. You, SpamZa Boy, were attempting to be an economic net negative and were shut down as a result.

You’re young SpamZa Boy so it’s difficult to get too angry with you. Heck, I remember when I was about your age, my friends and I used to take a neighborhood woman’s statue of Jesus off her lawn, put it on her front porch, ring her doorbell and run away. But you see SpamZa Boy, the difference between what we did and what you attempted to do is we weren’t screwing with anyone’s way to make a living and we weren’t damaging anyone’s property.

Yes, SpamZa Boy, e-mail newsletters’ lists of subscribers are other people’s property, and you were attempting to damage some of them. Granted, the publishers of these newsletters could and should defend themselves against the likes of you by using fully confirmed opt-in to build their lists, but that doesn’t make what you attempted to do any more acceptable.

As for that important job you have, well, stocking shelves certainly is important. Heck, I’ve done it. But you clearly have skills you could put to good, honest use for the economic betterment of all of us. Lord knows we could use some more of that right now.

So please SpamZa Boy, stop defending that teenage-prank of a business model of yours, study hard, and graduate from high school. I think I can safely speak for everyone in the commercial e-mail world when I say we welcome the day you become a productive member of society.