If memory serves me right, what Blue Mountain sends you for a "card" is a
link to their site (please correct me if I am wrong).
If I am correct, then you just don't go to the site to collect your card.
Also, FYI:
http://www.bluemountain.com/home/privacy.html
"We are committed to making your Blue Mountain experience enjoyable
and safe. When you send one of our electronic greetings, the
information you provide to us is used only to customize your greeting
with your name and your recipient's name, and to deliver email
notifications to you and your recipient. The names and email addresses
you give us when you simply send a card are NOT sold, compiled into
any type of mailing list, or otherwise used for any type of email
solicitation. "
I get more SPAM from Real Audio then I get from anyone else ( I use a new
address for anyplace that I have to give an address and so far NONE of them
have ever sold my address ).
Matt Soffen
Web Intranet Developer
http://www.iso-ne.com/
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruno Wolff III [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 12:47 PM
> To: Dave Sill
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: "Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:33:11 zTo:" header
>
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 12:22:21PM -0500,
> Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >I have the same problem and have been trying to educate my relatives.
> >
> > What education do people sending you cards need? Apparently I need it,
> > too.
>
> That I don't read email under windows. I don't want to waste bandwidth
> and diskspace on images, especially animated ones. I am currently not even
> using X on the machine that I use for email, so viewing images is a bit of
> a problem.
>
> I don't want the card companies collecting and reselling my address. While
> it isn't secret, the kind of people a greeting card company is likely to
> sell it to, aren't the kind of people I want using it.
>
> >
> > >In the mean time I am using the following rules for tcpserver:
> > ># Blue Mountain greeting card goes through bmarts
> > >209.247.132.86-138:deny
> > >209.247.133.7-8:deny
> > >
> > >This appears to have blocked at least one message from a relative
> > >successfully. I don't know who else uses bmarts, so this may block
> > >other people than Blue Mountain.
> >
> > bmarts is, presumably, Blue Mountain Arts.
> >
> > Do you block other card services, or is Blue Mountain the only one
> > that's evil?
>
> They are the only one I seem to have gotten sent cards by. If there was an
> RBL style list of greeting card servers, I would use it.
>
> >
> > Do you reject snail mail containing greeting cards?
>
> Snail mail cards don't have a lot of extra negative impact on my end when
> they
> have pictures added to them as well as text.
>
> >
> > Do you block calls from friends and relatives on holidays and
> > birthdays?
>
> No, but I often give telemarkers a hard time.
>
> >
> > I just don't get it...
> >
> > -Dave
