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SPAM . . .

Jan 28, 2015 10:45PM PST

I've had my prodigy.net email address for years. Probably 20 or so. And because of my surfing habits I do not share it with anyone (net company) that I do not trust. And because of that I never got SPAM/unsolicited emails. Until the last few months. Now I've started to get five or more a day. I know not to "Unsubscribe" because that could generate verification that it's a good email, I just delete them. So I don't. But I have to wonder how my address got compromised. I'll probably never know.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could sue the **** out of the company that sent the SPAM emails? If that was available I'll bet those emails would stop.

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Well, the national do not call list doesn't work either
Jan 29, 2015 12:06AM PST

Theoretically, they owe you $$$$ if they call you. Do you know people who have been called and were able to collect? These folks operate with random dialers and any # that connects discloses that it's active. I do wonder if email addys can't be generated the same way and bounce tested.

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I have a lot of sites
Jan 29, 2015 4:12AM PST

where I just send them to the delete folder.