no it was from the same adress every time, and its been about a week and a half and I
have not gotten anything from them. Usually I got something from them every couple of
days.

Thomas Eibner wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:13:07AM +0100, Andrew Nemchenko wrote:
> > Lately I've been getting messages from paid4survey.net offering me free gifts if
> > I take their surveys. I'm not sure how they found me but all of that is not the
> > point. The point that I'm trying to make is that at the bottom of the message
> > there is a small link which you can click to get removed from their list. I was
> > surprised to see that the link was not to a non existing email address but
> > rather to a web site where I chose the un subscribe option. Then it apologized
> > for the inconvenience and told me that I was removed. Just to double check I
> > clicked on the same link again, and was told that I could not be un subscribed
> > because no such account existed. I was so surprised to see a spam list that I
> > was able to un subscribe from that I just had to write about it. Perhaps if
> > other lists were like this then it would not be so bad.
>
> Did these paid4survey.net mail it directly to your account everytime or
> did the To: seem to be for someone else?
>
> Personally I would never try to unsubscribe myself from such a list via
> a web interface nor an email, since it would be giving them a verified
> email address they could sell if they wanted to [1].
>
> God luck with being spam free from them.
>
> [1] This assumes bad intent from the "spammers", they might not be bad
> in your case, but the majority probably will.
>
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