posted on May 4, 2001 06:25:46 AM
Good morning! When I checked my email this morning, I found this in my box:
To member: me
From member: xxxxxxx
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http:a link she sent me.htm and many other books audio, printed, hc, pb.
They have pretty much all books, audio or not at fluctuating (but cheap) price
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This email was sent by an eBay member via eBay's email forwarding system.
If you reply to the email, your response will go directly to the member and
not through eBay.
eBay does not tolerate spam (i.e., unsolicited commercial email) and is
taking steps to protect members from this abuse. In addition, solicitations
to buy or sell items outside of eBay violate eBay rules and are not covered
by services that protect members such as feedback, insurance, escrow, and
dispute resolution. If this is an offer to buy/sell items outside of eBay,
please do not participate. Enter the following link into your browser to learn more. Link: http://pages.ebay.com/help/email_info.html
This name does not ring a bell, nor do I remember asking anyone for info on where to find this stuff. I consider it SPAM and it was obviously sent through ebay. What, if anything, can I do?
posted on May 4, 2001 06:40:09 AM
Forward the email (with full headers) to [email protected] and they will suspend this jerk. I did it last week myself, the account it came from was suspended. I doubt the account was the persons actual account, probably a dummy account, but at least it will slow them down a bit.
I find it so much easier to hit "Delete" and get on with the important things of the moment than to worry about a little email
message in my inbox...
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Perspective...
The 10 Commandments: 179 words.
The Declaration of Independence: 1,300 words.
US Government regs on the sale of cabbage: 26,911 words.
Visit http://mrbucks.com
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I'm sure I will hear from all the anti-spam people that will claim spam is costing us millions of $$$'s and wasting bandwidth and causing the end of the world, etc...
Sorry about that, but sending 10 emails to report 1 spam message is "actually" doing more damage than hitting delete..!!!
posted on May 4, 2001 01:52:45 PM
Well, most anti-spammers don't send ten complaints per one spam (except for a few that mail-bomb the spammer, which doesn't help anyone), but sending complaints and getting spammers continually kicked is one part of the "spam war," which probably helps convince a lot of other companies to not use spam in the first place. There is cost to current spam, but that and spam would multiply if it were ever "legitimized," for that would be an open invitation to all the fence sitters to add spam to their marketing efforts. At least that's the feeling of one of "the anti-spam people."
That said, "delete" is a usable option for those that don't get much spam and/or don't want to bother fighting it. I used to "delete" junk mail and telemarketers, so to speak; but with telemarketing going up and the arrival of spam, some years back, I just lost my tolerance and started fighting back, and now enjoy receiving only 20% the junk mail, 5% the telemarketing, and 1% of the spam I was receiving at one time.
P.S., MRBucks: Interesting "perspective" sig. Wonder if there are still any unremoved laws in the books about making sure to tie down one's horse before entering a saloon.
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What's being done in the name of direct marketing nowadays is crazy.
The above are all just my opinions, except where I cite facts as such.
Oh, I am not dc9a320 anywhere except AW. Any others are not me.
Is eBay is changing from a world bazaar into a bizarre world?
[ edited by dc9a320 on May 4, 2001 01:53 PM ]
