On 20 Oct 2002, the pickle wrote: >Subject: >At 09:01 +1000 on 21/10/02, zazen wrote: > >>I have noticed I am getting increasing spam to my @mac.com addy - >>anyone else experiencing the same? > >If Apple didn't want to charge me $100/year to keep it, I might be able to >tell >you... >-- > >the pickle
I'm with Pickle - didn't renew my iTools/.mac account, but before it expired, I noticed that I was getting more spam than earlier (hadn't given it out very many places, so I was only getting regularly from one friend). Wonder how many accounts the spammers set a robot to find by HomePages on iTools, maybe? Anyway, for me it is a very moot point. Once I knew I wasn't going to be continuing the account and had notified my friends, I turned off forwarding from mac.com. Who knows how much spam was left on my old account by the end of September??? Think the key is what's already been mentioned here - accept that the jerks (spammers) will every so often find our e-mail addresses, don't (do *not*) reply to them, even the ones that assure you that you are on their list because you opted in somewhere (yeah, right - in a galaxy far away, in another time dimension, maybe! ;-) Periodically, if the spammer uses what looks like a valid e-mail address, I'll forward the whole thing (long headers and all) to this address and sic the federales on them: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (our beloved Federal Trade Commission) or to a specific ISP, if the spammers were really, *really* stupid: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for AOL addies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for MSN addies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for Mindspring addies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for Earthlink addies HTH, Jim Rohde Sometimes, I think the best evidence that extraterrestrial life exists is that none of it has tried to contact us. -- Calvin and Hobbes -- Mac Webmasters is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics has Lasso, Filemaker, and FileMaker Server on Sale! High Technology for low prices. http://www.smalldog.com Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac Webmasters info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/macweb.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:mac.webmasters@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:mac.webmasters-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:mac.webmasters-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lowendmac.com> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac.webmasters%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
