Posted by Tricky Dicky on 09/20/21 11:28

"P Pron" <paulatspambegone.pron@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3qj1ajFf7s2cU1@individual.net...
> Tricky Dicky wrote:
> || "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
>
> I don't know what the technical term is - they're certainly not an ISP.
> They provide access to newsgroups for a lot of people around here - they
> used to be free of charge, but now cost 10 Euros a year, which is a very
> cheap and welcome alternative to
> Tiscali.where.the.hell.did.that.post.get.to.news, for me, at least.
>
> I'm slightly concerned about revealing my own pet spam solution, because
> it involves using the M word, which I know causes grave offence to some.
> Oh what the heck - it's using Microsoft Outlook 2003 for email; the Junk
> Mail folder is just great - very little crap slips through to the Inbox,
> and I think it has accidentally trapped one piece of mail that wasn't
> actually crap...

I use Outlook 2003 for e-mail as well. And Outlook Express to still read the
text groups - very simple interface compared to Agent. Newsbin for the
binaries. Probably get flamed for this comment but I reckon people who get
spammed all the time are those that cannot help downloading shite from all
over the net and signing up for forums. And AOLers.

Tricky

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