Re: [meteorite-list] eBay Sellers list, eBay name change

[Mark Miconi]

Rob, AOL and MSN both sell email addresses to companies to offset costs of their services. MSN is in court now due to their PC discount offers they were using in the states....basically when you bought a PC at Best Buy or Circuit City you would get $400.00-$700.00 off the price of the PC if you signed up for 2 years of MSN. My mother fell for this and she was receiving 50-80 nasty emails a day from spammers. I tried everything I mentioned in my last email to eliminate the poblem. She hardly uses the internet and had no cookies. Somewhere there is a class action suit filed against MSN for selling email addresses during that discount program...MSN claims that they were forced to sell the email addresses to offset the costs of the discounts. Both AOL and MSN are trying to makeup for their selling email addresses by offering their new versions with SPAM Filters. NOT very effective if they are still selling your email address....that is why your sons email had spam in it 12 hours later.   Try using the software I suggested in my last email and that should help, but it will never go away while you are using AOL or MSN...especially AOL as they are doing everything they can to keep from going bankrupt.   If you need tech support email me and I will help where I can.   Mark M. Phoenix AZ ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 9:31 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] eBay Sellers list, eBay name change In a message dated 08/07/03 17:09:51 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: About six months ago, I was getting as much spam as I was getting mail from this list.  I changed my ISP and started off with a different email address and had remarkable results.  For the first three months, I got almost no spam.  Then the numbers started increasing.  Maybe the solution is to change your email address a couple of times a year. Hi John and all. A few weeks ago, I was looking over my 16 year old son's shoulder while he was online, and noticed that he was deleting several spam emails from his mailbox......some of which had some pretty ominous sounding subject lines!! Not wanting him to be exposed to this kind of stuff, I insisted that I closed his AOL email address and opened up a new one for him. He wasn't particularly impressed by this idea, but I had the last word on the matter ;-) His new AOL email address took only a few moments to set up and everything seemed fine. Unfortunately, when he went online with his new email address the very next morning, the spammers had already left him a couple of emails. Given that his new email address had only existed for a matter of 12 hours or so and that he hadn't sent any emails yet, it looks as though the spammers are always one step ahead of us! Cheers, Rob. Rob Elliott www.meteorites.uk.com Fernlea Meteorites, The Wynd, Off Dickson Lane, Milton of Balgonie, Fife. KY7 6PY United Kingdom Tel: +44-(0)1592-751563 Fax: +44-(0)1592-751991 Mobile: 07909-773929 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]