Author Topic: whats with spam email lately?? (Read 846 times)

Airhead · « **Reply #15 on:** April 28, 2003, 03:26:04 PM »

I have it on good authority Hi Tech is selling our e-mail addresses. It was Skuzzy's idea, I'll bet.

Nifty · « **Reply #16 on:** April 28, 2003, 03:53:32 PM »

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Originally posted by Vulcan
What I can't figure out is they haven't realized I'll never pay for porn, not when theres truckloads of it free on the newsgroups

cuz someone has to subscribe to said pay site to DL all of their stuff and post it to the newsgroups!

Pongo · « **Reply #17 on:** April 28, 2003, 05:36:45 PM »

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Originally posted by capt. apathy
had it since november. I don't think I've recieved a single peice of spam since then.

Since the spam is linked to your email address. And you changed your email address. Unless you give out your email somewhere you wont get spam.
Its not neccesarily anything to do with your service provider.

Airhead · « **Reply #18 on:** April 28, 2003, 05:47:34 PM »

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Originally posted by Curval
I keep getting spam that tells me I can enlarge certain parts of my body.

Curval, they must have gotten our e-mail addresses crossed up because I keep getting spam for Rogaine.

Octavius · « **Reply #19 on:** April 28, 2003, 06:00:29 PM »

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Originally posted by Pongo
Since the spam is linked to your email address. And you changed your email address. Unless you give out your email somewhere you wont get spam.
Its not neccesarily anything to do with your service provider.

Some ISPs sell their own subscribers! Bastiges.

I had just created a new account with an old ISP and didn't touch it for a week (NO subscriptions to any newsletters or stuff). I come to check it out and there is spam all over.

Playnet sold my info when I signed up for WWII Online free trial. I put my name as "Octavius Oct". I love getting snail mail addressed to that name

idiots

Octavius · « **Reply #20 on:** April 28, 2003, 06:01:15 PM »

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Originally posted by Bodhi
Do not get any spam, nor pop ups since I downloaded my free copy of zone alarm! Just tell it which programs to allow access to the internet, and whammo, no pop ups. As for the email, Road Runner never gives me spam.

I'm using Road Runner too, where is this free copy of zone alarm!?

Mini D · « **Reply #21 on:** April 28, 2003, 07:08:30 PM »

When I switched ISPs to USWest, I kept my old Teleport.com account (since I've used that e-mail addy for years) and never used my uswest.net account at all. After about 4 months of having both ISPs, I decided to just go with the USWest.net account. When I logged into the mail server for that account (one that I set up and never used)... I had over 4000 spam e-mails for 4 months.

MiniD

Eagler · « **Reply #22 on:** April 28, 2003, 08:07:06 PM »

and most "unsubscribe" links are crap too ..

the cgi script takes you off one list/database and sends you to hundreds of others - now that you confirmed it to be a valid email address......

spam is a fact of life - make friends with your delete key

vorticon · « **Reply #23 on:** April 28, 2003, 08:42:50 PM »

not to much spam here...(hotmail account to...) i found if i just click delete for a couple days after that the spam dissapears...it seems they can detect a block...

Tumor · « **Reply #24 on:** April 28, 2003, 09:12:02 PM »

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Originally posted by Vulcan
What I can't figure out is they haven't realized I'll never pay for porn, not when theres truckloads of it free on the newsgroups

Dude be QUIET!! The more people know the more attention it gets the quicker they'll start trying to shut THAT down lol!!