Recently my flatmate decided to move out. No biggy I thought, and proceeded to make a listing on flatfinder.co.nz

Shortly after I was spammed by homeads.co.nz, I wrote a response that was abrasive, witty and comical. Their response:

When you advertise your email address in an ad of any sort it becomes public domain. If you do not wish people to email you then you should not display your address. As to Flatfinders terms, you do not have to be a member to view therefore no terms are applicable as you have not agreed to any terms. As to the email address from us being auckland@homeads.co.nz you will note the ad inviting you to join quotes www.homeads.co.nz which is a national identity. Therefore your ability to be confused and/or to get angry is obviously very easy. As to you not appreciating us harvesting your address many others have been and therefore we will continue to do so until it is illegal for us to do so or breaches the terms of Flatfinders which at this time it does not. As you are not on our mailing list and we were replying to your ad we can not unsubscribe you from something you are not subscribed to. We will however make a note of your email address and should you re advertise within the next week we will not email you.

Wow, so let’s break this down into digestable chunks.

When you advertise your email address in an ad of any sort it becomes public domain.

Article 2, (1) of the Berne Copyright Convention says that I am posting into a LITERARY DOMAIN (I used brainpower to give the listing written structure and content. I typed it all in. I put in the effort.) Therefore by using and abusing my email address, homeads.co.nz is breaching my copyright, which by the way is illegal. For more reading on this, read Brad Templeton’s 10 biggest copyright myths, with specific attention to #3

As to the email address from us being auckland@homeads.co.nz you will note the ad inviting you to join quotes www.homeads.co.nz which is a national identity.

Typical fucking Jaffa, guess what, there is a whole country south of the Bombays, moron. This argument just proves how idiotic homeads.co.nz is

As to you not appreciating us harvesting your address many others have been and therefore we will continue to do so until it is illegal for us to do so or breaches the terms of Flatfinders which at this time it does not.

Well, I’ve just said that it is illegal, homeads, you’re breaching my copyright.

We will however make a note of your email address and should you re advertise within the next week we will not email you.

OH HOW GENEROUS OF YOU!

In other news, Kitten, I want to breed with you in the least furry sounding way. Your antispam plugin “Spaminator” has cleared me of all comment spam to date, and maybe just maybe I love you. To other bloggers suffering from comment spamming arsehats, give it a crack. Three thumbs up here