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For the past several months, about 2-5 emails per day have arrived from people bitching about being banned from an illegal movie and network streaming service. I soon learned that all of this service's various domain names include my email address as the point of contact. So when people invariably get banned for spamming the chat box on this unlicensed tv streaming service, they bitch to me and plead to be let back on the service.

Last month I yelled at their Twitter account, which yelled back that they don't run the site blah blah. Just for background: I dislike spam and spammers so much that I wrote a whole book about them. And at this point I was getting so annoyed by the constant wayward emails that I started researching the accounts and things promoting these PPV networks. For a while there I was like, No Mercy! Fear does not exist in this dojo, does it?!? I was even beginning to form a plan to auto-respond to these annoying messages with a vague promise to reinstate them if they could show proof of a donation to a local shelter or something.

But then I thought, instead of going nuclear on these guys what if I just asked nicely? Sometimes asking nicely is the best way forward.