Unfortunately, these kinds of mail don't come from the guys at Mandrake, or from users of this list. These mails come from spammers who send their stuff to lots of people and mailinglists. There's people dedicating themselves to search internet pages for email-addresses (using webcrawlers jumping from link to link; something similar can be done with the "wget" program included in most linux distros). This way they build up huge databases full of email-addresses, which they then sell to companies who want to send info to a great amount of people with little cost. Unfortunately these "companies" don't care about the fact that most people aren't even interrested in this crap. If only a small percentage of the people getting this "info" actually is interrested, the costs are already reclaimed. And the rest can go sit in a corner and sulk for all they care. Also, many of these mails contain information at the bottom on how to unsubscribe. It's advisable _not_ to do this, as this usually has the oposite effect. Instead of unsubscribing you, you get marked as an "active email user", they know your email-address is valid and gets read, so before you know you get tons of become-a-milionaire offers and such in your mailbox. Safest thing to do is just ignore it and delete the mail. On Feb 28 Emanuele La Rosa wrote: > Indeed I don't think it has something to do wirh linux. I'm new to a mailing > list but I know that is not a good manner to put this kind of email in a > mailing list. If I'm wrong I would like to be warned. > -- Lord Nightwalker aka Nighty aka DefConDos A train stops at a train station. A bus stops at a bus station. On my desk I have a workstation. ---------------------------------------------------------- Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
