Marta, NO! You don't know what you are asking for when you say you could use some Spam talk. I have been getting many offers to refinance my home at 3.99%, meet hot lesbian partners, buy time-shares in property, get cheap prescription drugs, try Viagra (and similar products), join beastiality sites, etc. Even the things such as refinancing would surely not be with companies I could trust!
I never got these things until I , ONE TIME, opened a pop-up ad and gave the site my E-mail address.... it had to do with some contest I had supposedly won... which couldn't be true... I hadn't entered one. I knew it was not going to turn out to be real; but I was curious as to how they would go about getting out of it! Then, I began to get Spam! And Spam begets Spam. You mustn't reply, even to tell them to stop... then they know you are reading it, and you get even more! (I tried that.) They sell your E-mail address to other sites, and it increases incrementally. DO NOT OPEN AND PLAY WITH ADS YOU DIDN'T SOLICIT! Spam doesn't Talk to you, as David Pogue or some sites do. There's no good information available on Spam sites. Anything you may want to know can be more pleasantly found on Google, or such. I'm hoping that mine is somehow lost in cyberspace! Mike On Dec 27, 2005, at 10:29 AM, Marta Edie wrote: > Bringing up Spam, do you people get a lot of it? I don't, at least not > anything i did not order or gave my name to receive mails, like New > york Times' e-mail ,BBC etc. I only received 2 emails in the last > several months I did not recognize the sender and of course promptly > deleted them. I did set up some filters, however, not knowing what I > am doing, or how they work, I am not sure how that works, and I am > never sure whether to put a mark in the place it asks whether I want > to trust my IP server's filters. I could do with a little Spam Talk > myself. > Marta > > On Dec 26, 2005, at 18:54, mikewatk wrote: > >> >> >> Jerry Yeager, >> >> I don't understand why it would make a difference, but since you >> reinstalled my Panther system, I am not getting all the Spam that I >> was before. It's a welcome development, to say the least. But, I'm >> puzzled. My E-mail address didn't change. Why would this have >> happened? I was getting a bunch of it both before and after MacTown >> installed my new HD. If that didn't make a difference then, to what >> do you think I can give the credit now? >> >> Anyone else have any ideas? I'm not complaining... just curious. >> >> Mike >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. >> | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
