Holly Bostick wrote:
How can I tell them to stop this?
1) Don't go to the site.
Well, I did go to the site but it was *after* I got the traffic. How
did they find me to begin with? I assume it was just a random hit.
Sort of like a shot in the dark.
But you don't have Windows or the Microsoft Messenger Service on a
Gentoo box; this foolishness is not actively dangerous to you;
You're right. I don't have windoze in the house. It is banned. You
can bring a dog but not windoze.
Having sent mail with this email address, it is no longer "private" (the
only way to keep a secret truly secret is to be the only one who knows
it, after all); anybody who reads your mail now knows your address, and
you have no way of knowing who is reading your mail-- who is "all the
members of this list"? How many people is that? Do you know all of our
email addresses, and have you signed a waiver saying "I want everybody
on this list <list of each and every one of our email addresses> to know
my email address"? No? Then you have already made your email address
"public" by using it to send mail to people that you don't specifically
know (the public, otherwise known as "us").
Oh crap. Well the cats out of the bag now I guess.
If you'd like an address to use for the list that would run some
interference between your personal email address and any possible
spammers, I (and probably 95% of everybody else on this list) can send
you a GMail invite which you can use as your "public" email address,
which would then "catch" such additional unwanted generated mail so it never
reaches your personal ISP email.
I have a Yahoo account. I wish I could check it in Mozilla-mail
though. I rarely ever check the thing unless I'm waiting on something.
I forget. Hmm, I need to check it too. It's been a while.
You might also consider re-evaluating your ISP-- I never saw the list
mail you're referring to, and I also never got the original PayPal crap
people talked about (though I got the replies, which was funny as I had
no idea what people were talking about)-- they didn't even get filtered
to my Trash. I really never got them, and I think that's because they
were caught by my ISP's spam filter. Does your ISP filter spam?
My ISP can but since I use Linux and they charge extra, I'll take the
crap. It's not like I'm going to get a virus. ;-) I don't get a lot.
I was getting less until they took bounce out of Kmail. I used to
bounce them and after a few times they didn't send any more. It was a
constant rotation though. There are so many spammers.
Again, if your ISP does not provide webmail, you can use GMail, Hotmail,
Yahoo!Mail or whatever web-based mail account to communicate with the
list, insulating your ISP account from any spam that participating in a
public list might cause to occur.
HTH,
Holly
It has webmail, I check it sometimes from my brothers, especially when
our phone is out. It sucks but it keeps me in touch with my ladies. :-)
Thanks genius, Holly. :D
Dale
:-)
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