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Offline hawker238

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« Reply #30 on: April 09, 2005, 11:04:39 PM »
I get about one spam piece a day, and it goes right to the spam folder.

Try not giving out your e-mail address to every freaking site that asks.  And if you absolutely must, create a free web account to send passwords, etc. to, and use your real account for other purposes.

This problem is not as bad as you make it out to be.  Just suck it up and be smart about using the internet.
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« Reply #31 on: April 09, 2005, 11:27:45 PM »
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Try not giving out your e-mail address to every freaking site that asks.  And if you absolutely must, create a free web account to send passwords, etc. to, and use your real account for other purposes.
 


It becomes a problem when the e-mail will be used as your business/working e-mail.
Like I've made a mod and I couldn't have just kept the e-mail addy hidden and the free e-mail accounts aren't good all around.

I did once create a hotmail account, never used it and after 2 weeks it was full of spam, so full it couldn't been used without frustration. :rolleyes:
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« Reply #32 on: April 09, 2005, 11:34:09 PM »
Whatever happened to that guy who tried to smuggle a monkey in his pants on an international flight ?
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« Reply #33 on: April 09, 2005, 11:39:11 PM »
My main email account went for several years without one spam.  I have a seperate junk account for commercial stuff that needs an email.

Then, one day a "friend" of mine wants me to view a dumb video on a website, so he fills in the "send this to a friend" box with my main email.  I could have killed him when he did that.  Sure enough, my main account has been getting spammed now, after several careful years with zero spam.

I reamed him out for that.

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« Reply #34 on: April 10, 2005, 12:39:06 AM »
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This problem is not as bad as you make it out to be.  Just suck it up and be smart about using the internet.


Consider yourself very fortunate.

And, yes, the problem is as bad as we make it out.

Think about it.

A couple things have occured.  My e-mail addresses ( plural.. I have 7 ) have managed to make it onto e-mail lists somewhere. Granted, a couple I set up 10 or so years ago were back in the early years of the internet, where you could publicly extract all sorts of member information from different ISPs ( aol, geosomething.. etc  ) and the evil ones used these lists to begin the assault of what we call 'spam' today.

Now, your first response is 'Well, get a new e-mail addy' .. to which my response is 'Why should I have to? '

Then, People are maliciously clogging up the internet sending millions and millions of completely useless and UNWANTED e-mail every day.  Why?  To be ornery or to, perhaps, snag the unknowing naive user.  Either way.. it's evil and naughty.  

Those who continue to do so are simply doing it to piss us off.

Fine..  they succeeded.. they've been warned.  They can serve the time.

I hope they get a cell with 'Bubba'.  Who likes to play 'chase the soap.'

There is no need for spam. It serves no positive purpose.  It should be eliminated.
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« Reply #35 on: April 10, 2005, 12:54:23 AM »
All the spam does also eat up surprisingly alot of bandwidth worldwide and slow down e-mail servers used to flood it.

If this kind of action is allowed to go on, then more spammers will join up and send even more spam, seeing it as FREE money at the cost of the others.
At the end YOU will be the one PAYING for the spam, as increased fees on ISP's and other services.

The USA really should apply same kind of law on e-mail marketing as they have on the fax marketing.
The EU is already working against the e-mail spamming.
The US anti-fax marketing law is quite neat, since it does punish the company if they are being advertised, which means they can't do it even from abroad without breaking the law.
Thats what we need for the e-mail in the states.
Then most of the western world companies would be out of the spamming business.
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« Reply #36 on: April 10, 2005, 06:18:16 AM »
3/4 Mill.. a month??? I had better get busy !

*franticaly notes every email addresses*
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« Reply #37 on: April 10, 2005, 09:37:33 AM »
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9 YEARS???

Thats crazy. what is wrong with people.  You spam and you get 9 years.  You are a Violent Felon  and you get less.


Yup, used to live in FLA, Guy could go to 7/11, shoot/kill the clerk, go prison, be out  before 7 years was up...rape..even less
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« Reply #38 on: April 10, 2005, 04:25:42 PM »
Spamming outsourced? It's one thing to get spam that is annoying as hell, but to get spam you can't even read/understand in broken English is even worse!:)
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« Reply #39 on: April 10, 2005, 05:13:22 PM »
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Originally posted by Dago
My main email account went for several years without one spam.  I have a seperate junk account for commercial stuff that needs an email.

Then, one day a "friend" of mine wants me to view a dumb video on a website, so he fills in the "send this to a friend" box with my main email.  I could have killed him when he did that.  Sure enough, my main account has been getting spammed now, after several careful years with zero spam.

I reamed him out for that.

dago




Same thing happened to me. I get a new ISP and not 6 months after i got it, i see a message to my wife saying a new survey is ready for her :mad:    She said her grandma told her to sign up and ever since then I get spammed everyday. Damn i wish she would learn!!!
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« Reply #40 on: April 10, 2005, 05:14:47 PM »
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Yup, used to live in FLA, Guy could go to 7/11, shoot/kill the clerk, go prison, be out  before 7 years was up...rape..even less



i bet the same guys with a bag of weed on them would of gotten mandatory 10-15, go figure!!!
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« Reply #41 on: April 10, 2005, 05:20:10 PM »
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Is this the "noodle Enlargement" spam dude...or the "Hello, I'm lonely and my husband is out of town" dude.

Or...one of the "Cheap Canadian Pharmacies"?

Either way...glad he is gone.


Gone? Some prisons farm out low cost labor for web-based merchandising. He's probably going to be running the prison's internet based order processing system.
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« Reply #42 on: April 10, 2005, 09:03:27 PM »
Telemarketers next please!
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« Reply #43 on: April 10, 2005, 10:24:59 PM »
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Telemarketers next please!


It's called the Federal do not call list..only charities and politicians are allowed to call if you are on the list..maybe a "do not spam" list?
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« Reply #44 on: April 11, 2005, 02:21:05 AM »
Who Spams? I mean honestly, do you go around saying, "Yeah, I email thousands of people to trick them into buying noodle enlargement pills and then steal their information."

I bet he lived with his mom and was the president of the AV Club in high school.
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