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Posted by Tricky Dicky on 05/09/13 11:28
"P Pron" <paulatspambegone.pron@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3qijlqFeusttU1@individual.net...
> Tricky Dicky wrote:
> || "Damon" <google@dshawcross.co.uk> wrote in message
> || news:1128522026.804072.88520@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> ||| Well was it inevitable that Individual.net would sell out it's news
> ||| service subscribers and release their email addresses to 3rd
> ||| parties so they can spam us?
> |||
> ||| Got one today from a German online betting place to my
> ||| individual@dsh.....co.uk address that i used to sign up with so i
> ||| know it was the german news provider who released it.
> |||
> ||| And to remove from the spam list I have to enter username and
> ||| password in the spammers site ??? i haven't got one with them so
> ||| how am I supposed to unsubscribe and I don't read German anyway?
> ||| German spamming cnuts
> ||
> || Never fill in those *unsubscribe* e-mails - all you do is validate
> || your e-mail address and you get deluged in spam. The best way to
> || avoid spam is to a buy a domain name because the bots mostly go
> || after the @yahoo, @blueyonder, @aol etc. addresses and if you need
> || to provide a working addy for a web sign-up then use one of those
> || self-destructing e-mail addresses - once you have got the serial
> || number or login - you don't need the addy again so it dies after 24
> || hours
> ||
> || Tricky
>
> Not clear how this addresses the question that Damon raises, which is
> whether News.Individual.Net has sold the email addresses of people who
> use them to access newsgroups. You'll see from his post that Damon
> followed your suggestion to buy a domain, before you made it.
>
> I've also had a few bits of German spam in the last couple of days, for
> the first time ever - addressed to the email account that is registered
> with Individual - which isn't this munged one I use for posting.
>
> I wonder whether an individual at Individual has been supplementing his
> income.
I thought Individual.Net were just an ISP. Are they then domain hosters?
Having my own domain has kept me relatively spam free for several years now
Tricky
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