Scum of The Earth

When I was an IT contractor we regarded recruitment agents as slightly below pond life on the evolutionary scale. They were totally without encumbrances that hold the rest of us back. I'm talking about things like honesty, morality, and the like. I’m sure there were some nice ones about, but I never met them.

Now I’m recruiting for a new techie, and despite my best efforts I am getting spam from the scum, so I’ve drafted a standard reply as follows:

THIS IS A STANDARD REPLY.

You have sent an unsolicited email in response to a gumtree posting clearly marked with the following :

“Anti spam: Do NOT contact me offering services or anything of a commercial nature.”

As you have chosen to ignore this instruction your email domain has now been flagged as a spamming domain, and may be added to a number of blacklists. Once a domain is listed on a blacklist you may find that email is not being received across a wide range of organisations.

To resolve this your mail administrator will be required to contact any list administrators to request that the domain be removed from any blacklists, and will be required to give assurances that unsolicited email is no longer being sent from this domain.

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL AS FURTHER EMAILS FROM YOUR EMAIL DOMAIN WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED

The wording is careful - I’m not actually going to the trouble of blacklisting domains, and this won’t stop other agencies from wasting my time, but it sure feels good when I hit the REPLY button.