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Re: XOOM downside
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lugnet.publish
Date: 
Thu, 12 Nov 1998 20:15:59 GMT
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mattdm@#spamcake#mattdm.org
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Larry Pieniazek <lpien@ctp.IWANTNOSPAM.com> wrote:
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.

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.

--
Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us                       --->             http://quotes-r-us.org/



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  Re: XOOM downside
 
(...) 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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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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