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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 (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | Re: XOOM downside —Mike Stanley
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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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| | | | | Re: XOOM downside —Patrick Gili
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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)
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| | | | | | | Re: XOOM downside —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | | (...) Doesn't tripod also have those stupid pop-up windows like Geocities? (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | Re: XOOM downside —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) Thanks for the Tripod flog. However it doesn't address my question, which was "is anyone else getting lots of XOOM spam". Mike answered it: Comes with the territory, I guess. Shoulda known. Not a complaint, nothing is free! (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: XOOM downside —Lee Jorgensen
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| | | | | | Well, if you have unlimited internet access, and an extra phone line, use Monolith (www.ml.org) and set up a free dynamic domain for dynamic IP addresses. Also use Dynamo for the IP detection. If running Win32 (95/98/NT) use Apache (www.apache.org) (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: XOOM downside —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | Cool. Now if only I had some content worth having an extra phone line... Steve (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: XOOM downside —Lee Jorgensen
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| | | | | | (...) Not exactly ... what I meant ... probably poorly worded, is that an extra line would help with this, but not needed. Whenever you log into your ISP, you're given an IP address ... Dynamo will check this (place in your startup), and when your (...) (26 years ago, 13-Nov-98, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: XOOM downside —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | | (...) Yeah... and dynDNS services eem to have been down for a month or so :(( Jasper (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: XOOM downside —John Bauman
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| | | | | | You can also get one from www.nws.net but that one keeps going down and up. Lee Jorgensen wrote in message <364C57C4.5123E976@u...st.net>... (...) FreeDomain (...) above) (...) (26 years ago, 1-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: XOOM downside —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | On Fri, 1 Jan 1999 21:02:24 GMT, "John Bauman" <jtb86@ptdprolog.net> wrote: Monolith has announced all services going down, accept those for static IPs from pre-existing donaters. Personally, I use dynip.com. Free for a month, and after that, it (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | Re: XOOM downside —Matthew Miller
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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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| | | | | | | Re: XOOM downside —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | (...) Yeah, but you'd kinda like to think that a business providing a service would act a little more reputably than some scumbag trying to sell bulk e-mail software. (26 years ago, 12-Nov-98, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: XOOM downside —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | (...) Ohh, it's actually from Xoom? Hrm. You're right, I'd expect better. (26 years ago, 13-Nov-98, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | Re: XOOM downside —Larry Pieniazek
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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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| | | | | | Re: XOOM downside —Chris Moseley
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| | | | Larry Pieniazek <lpien@ctp.IWANTNOSPAM.com> wrote (...) :) "We have a system. All we need to do now is to make it work" Moz (echoes of the current "men and emotions" thread in soc.feminism) (26 years ago, 14-Nov-98, to lugnet.publish)
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