Posted by P Pron on 09/20/49 11:28

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.

paul

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