It's not this list. I'm on AO(Hel)L and get the same spam, from porn to digtal TV and it's always the same line in the e-mail, (response to a feedback form) along with the pitch. Just another reason why I'm thinking of saying farewell to Mr. Case and Co.
MoparLarry, 87 Dakota 4x4, 95 Neon Sport Coupe
In a message dated Fri, 29 Jun 2001 4:13:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time, owner-dakota-truck@BUFFNET.NET (DML Digest) writes:
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> : Are you reading the list via the DML newsgroup? There are companies
> : which get email addies from various newsgroups and sell them to the
highest
> : bidder.
>
> That is true, but the DML newsgroups aren't distributed as a Usenet
feed;
> they are private newsgroups where the messages stay on the server and
> a usercode and password is required to access them. (They were set up as
> private for this very reason.) Granted, there isn't anything stopping
anyone
> from signing up as a normal user and collecting e-mail addresses (this is
> true for any mailing list as well), but generally they are looking for an
> easier source; they don't want the hassle of looking up passwords,
> subscribing, etc. for a few hundred or a thousand addresses when they can
> get millions from Usenet.
>
> --
>
> -Jon-
>
> .---- Jon Steiger ------- jon@dakota-truck.net or
jon@jonsteiger.com -----.
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> | '92 Ram 150 4x4 V8, '96 Dakota V8, '96 Intruder 1400, '96 FireFly 447
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