selling email addresses

[James]

Claire - when you recieve well over 200 spam emails like i do a day its not just clicking a button - i have to spend at least 10-20 minutes sifting through them all ensuring i'm not deleting a valid/important email - either ctw or personal. As Tom says its marketing in its lowest form and i cant understand why they do it as i for one will never buy any of these products / services - i mean they are not even targetted properly !!

[Signum]

this guy ----> looks seriously unhappy.

[Claire DC]

Yeah i guess so but i dont get that many so i didnt think about it that way!!

[Claire DC]

this guy ----> looks seriously unhappy.

 

Maybe he's had loadsa spam!!

[Signum]

fine joke m'lady!

 

damn fine!

[Evilhedfuk]

You can have mine for a fiver!

[Signum]

£3.50?

[Claire DC]

fine joke m'lady!

 

damn fine!

 

hehe y thank u

[Evilhedfuk]

£3.50?

 

£3.75 and it's yours!

[Scream]

remember people if it's bot automated and you get an e-mail delete it and not click unsubscribe. The reason being as this will tell the bot the addy is live and in use, so it's worth more!!!

[Blink]

My advice is to set up a hotmail account just for using on sites, then you can use the junkmail filter. I have mine set on exclusive, so only addresses I have actively selected go to my inbox, all the others go to the junkmail folder, and I scan this twice a week, click on anything interesting, and then just dump the lot. If I get an email from someone I want in my junk mail, I just add it to my accepted list. I rarely, if ever, post my POP3 email address (that is the one that goes into Outlook people).

Remember, a hotmail account is free.

And never click to unsubscribe from junk mail that you haven't subscribed to, it just tells them the account is active.

[TomD]

good idea, i do exactly the same thing - i have a hotmail account i signed up for a couple of years ago that i just use for message boards/junk/usenet/etc that i don't care if it has spam in it or not

 

but when it's actually related to clubbing, i wonder, because it's still spam but unlike the messages i get about university diplomas and cable descramblers, i can relate to this as it's a lot closer to home and it just makes me actually want to find out what they think they're doing.

 

now i'm getting riot vs x-static stuff it particularly makes me annoyed, especially since one of the promoters of x-static lives and posts on this message board. HINT HINT

 

(p.s. i got another x-static one today... that's, what, five now, i think)

[Signum]

done!

 

cheque on the way, if you would just like to post your address - on this post