Bernard, Your message looks like a lot of the spam I get. You did not go into much detail about why you were sending us a link to a dodgy foreign retail site.
About a dozen messages like that a week make it through my various spam filters. They frequently say things like, "Hey, what do you think about this?" and "Check this out!" and other come-ons pretending to be from a friend, but not saying enough to identify themselves one way or the other. They all have two things in common: not a lot of words and a link to some site trying to sell something. Anyway, I am sorry that I jumped to conclusions, but, word to the wise: spend more time explaining why you want us to check out that site or we (well, I anyway) will dump the message before we get a few words into it. If you want an actual answer you need to start such messages by apologizing for making us look at a cheap, reputation-unknown, foreign internet retailer. Otherwise, it's spam. And what if that site had drive-by code in it? All your PC friends might get infected by it. Now, to answer your original question: avoid foreign bargain-basement retail sites. So many are not there to sell you good stuff. If they sell you anything at all it will not be what you expect. Many of them are there, though, to harvest credit card information and to infect PC users who think that anti-virus software actually protects them. j. On Sep 16, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Bernard Griffis <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear MacGroup and Mr Fletcher. I am a real person and I don't know anything > about it being spam. I receive the group email and so I received the mail I > sent and it was clean. This is exactly why I was not more active in the group. > The site I was asking about markets multiple products and one of them is > Apple. I had been reading about China stealing our information and building > counterfeits. They seem to be too cheap to be real Apple manufactured > products. Sorry, Bernie > > With apologies to Mr. Griffis, Marta tells me you are a real person. I guess > a spambot got your address and the address of the group and spoofed a message > from you. > > Sorry for doubting your existence. > > j. -- Jonathan Fletcher FileMaker 9/10/11 Certified Developer Fletcher Data Consulting [email protected] http://www.fletcherdata.com 502-509-7137 Kentuckiana's FileMaker Users Group Next meeting: Tuesday, September 27, 12:00 pm to 3:00-ish Blog: http://www.kyfmp.com _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
