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XOOM downside
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lugnet.publish
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Wed, 11 Nov 1998 03:26:40 GMT
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lpien@ctp^NoMoreSpam^.iwantnospam.com
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Some of us have XOOM sites. Is anyone else that does getting the volume
of spam I do? It seems every day I get an offer from them to sell me
something. And every day I dutifully follow the instructions to get off
that list, but each of the lists has a slightly different email address
so it seems I just keep doing it and doing it and doing it. Sigh.
--
Larry Pieniazek http://my.voyager.net/lar
For me: No voyager e-mail please. All snail-mail to Ada, please.
- Posting Binaries to RTL causes flamage... Don't do it, please.
- Stick to the facts when posting about others, please.
- This is a family newsgroup, thanks.
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Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: XOOM downside
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| (...) I changed my e-mail address once just to get away from them. Then, like an idiot, I went to their site and made another account. Now I just have a filter for everything from them to the trash. (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.publish)
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| Larry, You should take a look at tripod.com? This web hosting service is part of Lycos and done so very professionally. In addition, you don't have to incorporate any advertisements in your page AND your information is confidential. I am thinking (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.publish)
| | | Re: XOOM downside
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| (...) Probably part of your problem is that you follow the remove instructions. A lot of spammers take a 'remove' message as a confirmation that their spam was actually read by a human, thereby making you a good target for more. (26 years ago, 12-Nov-98, to lugnet.publish)
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| (...) Well, there is a robot at the other end of the mailpipe... I today got a mail back from it with a very long and involved note about all the wonderful things it could do, if only it understood my mail. At the end, it said to unsubscribe, I (...) (26 years ago, 13-Nov-98, to lugnet.publish)
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