Guest guest Posted August 22, 2001 Report Share Posted August 22, 2001 It's SO annoying, I agree. Unfortunately it's part of being on the net these days. Years ago only the 'computer nerds' were on here and there was no commercial presence, therefore no spam. Now the net has been made available to just about anyone, email collecting for the purposes of advertising is big business. I caught an advertiser with an obvious address subscribing to our group the other day and banned them. However, it doesn't take long for a bit of software to collect the list of addresses. And without knowing who are the advertisers (for instance, if they have 'ordinary' emails) it's difficult for - or us - to do much about it as far as the groups are concerned. Email addresses are also collected by other methods as email is a completely open book which can be read by anyone on the thousands of machines which carry email around the world. So, if you send email anywhere at all, your address can be picked up and used for sending advertising material. Personally, I just scan down my list of emails each day and the first thing I do is delete all the obvious adverts and then read the others. Chris. >What does one do with unwanted mail? I'm >getting loads of mail daily which is mostly advertising from Notifs, >Optionreading, etc. etc. Am so exasperated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 22, 2001 Report Share Posted August 22, 2001 Before deleting spam, I always report it to SpamCop ( http://spamcop.net/ ). They have both a free service and a pay service that's very inexpensive, and makes spam reporting a little easier (that's what I use). You can also set it up to filter your incoming email if you wish. I figure that if everyone reported spam to the " upstream " ISP, spam wouldn't exist anymore. Once in a while, I'm gratified to see that an ISP has canceled the email account a spammer. -- Ron From: " and Chas Adlard " <cadlard@c...> Date: Thu Aug 23, 2001 3:14 am Subject: Re: rheumatic unwanted mail > It's SO annoying, I agree. Unfortunately it's part of being on > the net these days. Years ago only the 'computer nerds' were on > here and there was no commercial presence, therefore no spam. > Now the net has been made available to just about anyone, email > collecting for the purposes of advertising is big business. > > I caught an advertiser with an obvious address subscribing to > our group the other day and banned them. However, it doesn't > take long for a bit of software to collect the list of > addresses. And without knowing who are the advertisers (for > instance, if they have 'ordinary' emails) it's difficult for > - or us - to do much about it as far as the groups are > concerned. > > Email addresses are also collected by other methods as email is > a completely open book which can be read by anyone on the > thousands of machines which carry email around the world. So, if > you send email anywhere at all, your address can be picked up > and used for sending advertising material. > > Personally, I just scan down my list of emails each day and the > first thing I do is delete all the obvious adverts and then read > the others. > > Chris. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 23, 2001 Report Share Posted August 23, 2001 What does one do with unwanted mail? I'm getting loads of mail daily which is mostly advertising from Notifs, Optionreading, etc. etc. Am so exasperated. Loads of best wishes to all Zanash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 13, 2002 Report Share Posted September 13, 2002 >>> One of the primary rules which makes a piece of mail NOT spam is > if it gives the receiver a way to unsubscribe. The mail which > I received from Lenny did do that. I disagree with this and have checked with others in the computer business. " Spam " can also be getting repeated messages which you do not want. The fact that some people said they tried to " unsubscribe " to the Lenny-mail and these requests were ignored makes the note to unsubscribe meaningless. > I have not reread the rules recently, but am NOT aware of > any rule against writing to users of a list privately. I do this > regularly on many lists I read. Writing someone privately is not a problem. Subscribing them to places they never said they wanted to join is a problem. And then re- subscribing them after they tried to get off is a problem. Also, the issue was in doing this en masse, meaning it wasn't just one private email to one or two particular people. " Harvesting " emails is strongly against most every group's terms whether it is with or any place else. Also the emails were not specifically answering someone's questions or directed at their particular post (he was not responding to someone's individual post). . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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