>>Once again I received a 'soft porn' e-mail, clearly marked [Finale]. This >>one advertising a sex-chat room. In the recipients column was a whole heap >>of addresses, all starting with "Fin..." e.g. Finishing touch (dry >>cleaners?), Fingerstall, (manicurists?) etc so I suspect that someone has >>got hold of a huge address list and is sending random porn adverts to >>blocks of the list. Nobody else has mentioned this, which worries me a >>bit. No, it's not my scene so I don't know how I qualify. Just lucky(?) I >>guess! Anyone else getting this? Or are we too embarrassed to admit it? <<
I got a couple of these as well, but I just deleted them. These kinds of mailings reach us in a variety of ways, just like junk mail. In addition to buying mailing lists, website owners can use automatic software to scoop up screen names from perfectly legitimate chat rooms. On AOL, I sometimes get porn email that is being sent to every possible permutation of rose231, rosebud, rosepetal, anything having to do with roses. I have gotten these emails off and on for the past several years. I never visit porn sites, nor trade pornographic images with friends, but they come anyway. Usually they come from a screen name that will obviously be deleted after the mailing is sent, such as [EMAIL PROTECTED] They used to really gripe me, but now I don't even think about them anymore; I just delete them. I did find it a bit curious to get it in conjunction with this list, but I still don't worry about it. I can understand that others might find it a real invasion, as I did at one time, too. Crystal Premo [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
