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January 19th, 2003, 02:02 AM
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OT- Junk Mail
Ok, please tell me if this is not the height of all irony:
I have an e-mail address for a summer program I participated in. I didn't use it for anything else, and the address only appears once on the web page of that same summer program.
I just checked this account. I got a spam message trying to sell me a junk mail filter! 
Not entirely sure why they're expecting to get any response to this. If it is in fact a legitimate mail filter, it will obviously leave a huge hole for the seller to send you Messages, and thus a big hole to whomever the seller decides to sell the filter penetration method to.
Just felt like ranting...
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January 19th, 2003, 02:48 AM
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Re: OT- Junk Mail
Yea, an the people that provide you that email address NEVER sell lists of their email accounts. that would be unethical. 
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January 19th, 2003, 03:16 AM
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Re: OT- Junk Mail
Just FYI...
Hotmail accounts are spam-cursed. Microsoft will harvest the addresses that you send mail TO even if you have opted out of their 'direct' spam list. Isn't that clever? You opted out of receiving spam, but they didn't ask if you wanted all recipients of your emails to be spammed. This is Bill Gates at his slimiest. So, whenever you send an email to someone from a Hotmail account you are pointing a gazillion spammers at that account.
Did anyone working with you on that project use a Hotmail account? 
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January 19th, 2003, 07:58 PM
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Re: OT- Junk Mail
There are also harvester bots that crawl the Web mining e-mail addresses from any site they encounter.
We even sometimes get spam at the admin requests address at PBW.
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January 20th, 2003, 12:11 AM
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January 20th, 2003, 02:56 AM
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Re: OT- Junk Mail
I once reactivated my Hotmail account, just to sign up for, IIRC, Webshots. I got 3 spam Messages BEFORE I got my sign up confirmation message!
Fortunately, I don't use that account for anything except signing up for things, so I never have to read the spam 
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