posted on September 8, 2000 09:13:04 AM
I got the following email today, anyone else receive this? I never heard of this site.
The rare, the groovy and the absurd collide at Popula Auction:
www.popula.com
Recommended by Netscape What's Cool, About.com, eTour, fabulous rock stars, TipWorld, Flung! etc.: "There's no denying the charm of Popula," raved AuctionWatch. (OK, well sort of raved.)
Vintage clothing, rare books and all sorts of other weird stuff, in a relaxed, discerning atmosphere.
If you should find this message alarming rather than gratifying, please reply with the words, "Hey, cut it out" in the subject line. Thanks for reading.
posted on September 8, 2000 09:18:20 AM
Like I mentioned eariler check your system to see if you have aureate on it. Another easier way to find it is to go to START, click FIND, type in aureate and than click SEARCH. If it's there you're being harvested and that's why you are getting spam. If it's not there than go to your email and BLOCK the messages, and also set RULES with keywords to prevent anyone from spamming you.
posted on September 8, 2000 07:01:57 PM
guyuellas -
Whether or not the Aureate "phone home" software ever got installed on a system HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SPAM ... I get tons of it and have never downloaded any of the Aureate shareware.
spammers buy and sell email addresses. As proven on-line buyers and sellers, we are prime targets.
posted on September 8, 2000 10:23:25 PM
Did you check popula out? I LOVE it...great place to buy for eBay resale I have signed up for their mailing list!!! The ODD the GOD and the MOD every 2 weeks or so...really cool, really weird items...check em out and have some fun.
Keith
I assume full responsibility for my actions, except
the ones that are someone else's fault.
posted on September 9, 2000 12:38:27 PM
No spam, though I do get their newsletter since I signed up with them. It's a nice little site for odd & unique items.
I don't get bent out of shape by what spam I do get--takes only a second to delete or block it. And sometimes I have discovered sites I might never have been aware of if I hadn't gotten an email ad...
posted on September 10, 2000 04:49:15 PM
I timed myself, once. It takes me 15 seconds to manage a spam message (read, delete, block or whatever). Let's see... 15 seconds times 20 spams per day equals 5 minutes... times 7 days equals...
It takes entirely TOO much time to deal with spam. (I know you CAN'T do it in one second -- think about it. By the time you've moved your mouse to click on the delete button, or your hand to the keyboard, one second is already past.)
I fight against spam whenever I get it. It may take me more time now to do that, but it'll save me time in the future, I believe, by helping to keep the net spam-free. Spammers are THEIVES -- they steal our time, our resources, the use of our phone line internet connection and computer, disk space (even if temporary), etc. Don't give in to the thieves!
Violetta
(Not known by this nickname anywhere but here.)
posted on September 10, 2000 05:08:09 PM
I deal with spam, actually, in two ways. The vast majority I never see--Earthlink, my ISP, has something called Spaminator that catches about 90% of it. Once in a while I pop into it & click "delete all." No reading involved.
For the rest that slips through, it takes me all of a second to glance at a *title* & delete it if of no interest without reading the body of the message at all. That takes care of just about all the rest of spam sent to me. A very, very few rouse my interest enough to read their message--doesn't take all that long.
I look on spam as the electronic version of the paper ads that fill our mailboxes. Not worth getting bent out of shape over--the trash can is only a step away.
posted on September 10, 2000 05:21:09 PM
Why should *I* pay to have THEIR junk hauled away? Every couple of years I contact DMA (Direct Marketing Association) and tell them to take our names and addresses off their mailing lists. It helps! I'm getting ready to do it again, because my junk mail has increased recently.
My experience with spam, in 6 years of Internet usage, is that if I don't do something to fight it, it just keeps increasing. (My ISP finally added a spam block option 2 months ago!)
Violetta
(Not known by this nickname anywhere but here.)
