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George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>This is not exactly a debian topic but it is something to do with the Linux community that concerns me. My Significant Other today received a giant spam from Linux Mall that can best be described as a website via email. She has never posted to a Linux newsgroup or mailing list and wants to know why she is getting spam from the Linux community. I took a look at it and it is a few pages of ads with html links to different web pages for products. Reminds me of Sanford Wallace's work. I once got a spam from these people after posting in a general linux newsgroup and vowed never to view their site. TIme passed, I got no more spam, so I started using it. Never again. They are now sending linux spam to people who do not even use linux. Since Linux users and the community in general tend to be heavier users of the net and usually understand the administrative headaches that come with unsolicited advertizing by email, I would like to ask others to join me in calling Linux Mall on the carpet in this instance and explain just exactly why they have chose such a rude and inconsiderate method of advertizing their offerings. I would hope that other Debian users might join me in avoiding Linux Mall and any of their product offerings. It appears that they have simply subscribed people to a mailing list without permission or request and require you to unsubscribe in order to stop the ads. I am ashamed to have Linux Mall associate itself with the Linux community. The Linuxmall sent him the following reply: I found the above in my postmaster file . What is your "Significant Other" email address and we will see to it that it is removed from out list. We do not use usenet groups or any other email list other then those who subscribe to them as we do not want to send email to those that do not want it. We have had some people who have sign up for our announcement list using other people's email address. We are more then happy to work with you on this matter. For the record any of our great customers who do not want to be on our email list can be removed with no problem. We DO NOT want to send email to anyone who does not want it. Only those customers who have sign on at our website at http://www.LinuxMall.com or sign up for Linux News or phone us get on this list. For the record George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has not replied to our inquiry to remove the his "Significant Other" from our list. We at LinuxMall thank our wonderful customers for there great support. Thank You LinuxMall
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