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Not all spam is nasty. Here's one I just got

by drpruner. Jul 9, 2007 4:08AM PDT

that isn't for sex, greed, or cheap software. In fact, it's for a practical, beneficial product. Yet ... somehow ... it just doesn't inspire confidence.

Kill GREMS Sample of Purell Sanitizing Wipe ... for a limited time only

No, I didn't open it.

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I hate spam with a passion
by James Denison Jul 9, 2007 4:17PM PDT

this year I retired an email account I'd had about 13-15 years due to spam. It was denison4@bellatlantic.net
I still actually have the account active, but changed my email address because it had gotten to over 1000 spam per day coming in. I'd used Verizon's spam Blocker, plus I had over 30 filters with 5 conditions each, and still had too much showing up in my inbox. So, I now have that abandoned email address forward everything to SPAM@UCE.GOV
Maybe they can track down the most egregious or use evidence from all that spam along with other spam they gather to prosecute the worst offenders. If you send an email there, you will get a notice back about the account being abandoned and all mail being forwarded to the government now.

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Say, you need our latest product,
by drpruner. Jul 9, 2007 5:00PM PDT

Purell Sanitizer for Inboxes! Cleans span ***** and spam, washes Windows, and cracks passwords! You'll feel as much a man as the other guy! Just click on the link- don't bother to check it first- and you'll be connected immediately to our Nigerian mirror site.

But seriously, folks, p. 47 of PCWorld, Aug 07 has an article on using disposable e-mail addresses for that very reason. Check it out.

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Way back when
by James Denison Jul 9, 2007 11:52PM PDT

...I got that address, we were using Navigator 2 and the internet was a different place. Unfortunately those who participated then didn't anticipate the latter overwhelming scourge of spam to come and so those older email addresses got picked up on some spam list and then when it hit in earnest a few years back it just ballooned. I know all the spam comes from that era because I'd already switched over to an "alias" and all the spam came with the old address on it, not the newer protected alias. Unfortunately that meant Verizon kept dumping it to the same inbox, so I had to move over to a completely different user account. Now I have several email addresses, probably about 10 in all, and most of those are throwaway if spam starts to overwhelm them.

It's sort of like what happened in Florida government. The open information laws there in past encouraged putting social security numbers on official documents. Now, due to identity theft, they are having to launder all that and keep those from appearing in any online resources when they scan in older documents and add to the growing online "open government" databases. They've even cracked down on getting copies of birth certificates without some evidence you have a right to it. Thanks to crime, thanks to illegal immigration, this is society today we contend with.

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"society today we contend with": 2 Tim 3:1-5
by drpruner. Jul 10, 2007 8:09AM PDT

(Which is not to dismiss your problems.)

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