Is AOL a real ISP or just a convenient vehicle to deliver advertisments to people who think that they have a legitimate provider?
:-)
Randy
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] eBay Sellers list, eBay name change
>Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 12:31:28 EDT
>
>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,
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>Off Dickson Lane,
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