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. > > -- > Thomas Eibner <http://thomas.eibner.dk/> DnsZone <http://dnszone.org/> > mod_pointer <http://stderr.net/mod_pointer> > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list ------ http://USFamily.Net/info - Unlimited Internet - From $8.99/mo! ------ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: drew.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 265 bytes Desc: Card for Andrew Nemchenko Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010717/ca607bc6/drew.vcf