RE: [2] [cobalt-users] speaking of spam...

["clayton oliver" <coliver@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>It's useful to have a catch-all when many of your clients are too
>>computer-illiterate to get an email address right (and don't
>>know what an address book is).
>
> Hi !
>
> I really don't think so. If someone is too stupid to type in
> the correct e-mail-address. So what.
> The mail bounces, comes back and the sender has to correct
> his fault. A good method to
> learn ;-)   On the other hand, if it would not bounce he
> might spread the wrong address ...

Not stupid, just ignorant.  And you're operating on the incorrect assumption
that all clients are capable of learning from their mistakes.  My company's
average end user is a 52-year-old housewife with a third-grade reading
comprehension level.  On new software installation trips, our personnel
regularly have to teach new users how to use a mouse.

Given this, it helps us to have a catchall so we can get as much of their
blindly-flailing email as possible.  YMMV.

- C.

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Clayton A. Oliver         Technical Writer, Tenmast Software
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