posted on November 5, 2000 05:25:55 PM new
I've been using the internet for two years, mostly eBay. Spam has not been much of a concern. However, I recently purchased a domain name and holy moly. I'm getting spammed left and right. Let me see if I understand this correctly: I paid $15.00 to get spammed relentlessly.
posted on November 5, 2000 05:30:15 PM new
well if you purchased a domain name and haven't used it your e mail is probably somwhere on it if it is get it off right away and that will probably stop that. and just block all the adress that are spaming yoU!
posted on November 5, 2000 06:45:18 PM new
Warning:
Do NOT respond to any of the spams...
Do NOT send complaints to ISP's...
If you do, you will increase the amount of spam you receive by 10 times...
Just click delete...
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Perspective...
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posted on November 6, 2000 08:53:39 AM new
To add to MRBucks' statement of "Do NOT respond to any of the spams..." -- this means not even when they give you "unsubscribe" or "remove" information.
So don't be fooled by such "nice" opt-out offers. The vast majority of spammers will NOT remove you from their lists. Plus, you have also tipped them off that there is an active person behind that email address. You'll only end up on more lists with more volume. That's a large part of the truly pernicious, parasitical nature of this junk.
I learned this the hard way after I first started receiving spam. Spam was the final straw changed my dislike of direct marketing into total disgust, and the shady practice of not even honoring opt-out requests, as weak as opt-out is to start with, shows the truly slimy nature of spam.
Spammers don't have to try to figure out what addresses are valid on such domains -- any address is. If the virtual domain is on the Web, you don't even need to have an email address listed on one of your webpages -- the domain name can be sufficient.
I don't know what percentage of virtual domains are that way, or how to change this, but I know a significant chunk of them are this way.
You also end up listed in domain registers that are publicly available on the Web. I'm not sure if they obfuscate their pages to make it hard for spammers to browser for new target domains, but it's another possibility.
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What's being done in the name of direct marketing nowadays is crazy.
The above are all just my opinions, except where I cite facts as such.
Oh, I am not dc9a320 anywhere except AW. Any others are not me.
Is eBay is changing from a world bazaar into a bizarre world?
