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Why? He could move house hahaha :laugh:
Seriously though, why should I change my email address that I've had since 1994 because I'm on every (and I mean every) spam list on earth. I have to wade through 100's emails each day, and occasionally accidently delete important emails hidden amongst the spam.
He can contact all the companies and remove himself from their mailing lists, just like I have to contact every spammer and 'remove' (I don't believe half the links at the bottom are actually the spammers site) myself.
In Australia we call people like him "Nimbys". It's OK, as long as it's "Not In My Back Yard"..
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I guess that only applies to unaddressed massmails and not to personally addressed letters. Or how can the postman figure out which letter from Honda contains an important contract and which one is the catalogue that I sent him to his address this morning?
...guess the only way to get rid of it is to call every single company and ask to be removed...
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MIKE WENDLAND: Behind the scenes, spam's even uglier
December 13, 2002
Bloomfield Township spam artist Alan Ralsky is in the midst of yet another controversy, this time involving an anti-spam activist who says someone left him threatening telephone messages after he took photos of Ralsky's brand-new $740,000 house.
The activist, Rich Clark of Warren, said he's reported the threats -- which were left on his answering machine -- to police. He said it all started last weekend when he drove to Ralsky's neighborhood to snap some photos for an anti-spam Web site.
Clark said as he was taking his pictures from the street, someone left Ralsky's house, got into a black car and tried to block him from driving away. Clark said he maneuvered around the vehicle, but was followed.
The next day, the phone calls started.
"You don't know who the hell you were . . . with yesterday," began the first call. "You got the wrong guy. You don't even have the guy you think you do."
The caller then gave details about Clark's home, his driver's license number, even the bank his car was financed through.
A second call said: "I'm going to make your life so miserable you should watch every corner you go into, bro, every second."
The next day, there was still another message. "Just waiting for you," it said. "You haven't heard the beginning of what's going to happen to you yet. Keep your eyes open."
Clark provided me copies of the recordings. Are they from Ralsky? It was hard for me to tell. I asked Ralsky, and he said he knows nothing about it.
"Come on," said Ralsky, "That's ludicrous. I'm not that stupid."
He said he had no idea who was in the black car that Clark said left his driveway. "I don't have a black car," he said. "And I'm 57. I'm not about to go chasing anyone. But what was that guy doing taking pictures of my house for, anyway?"
Clark says he took the pictures to post on an anti-spam Web site (he hasn't decided which one). He now plans to add the audio files from the phone messages.
Warren police said Clark's report is on file, but there is no investigation in progress.
Ralsky, who is one of the biggest senders of unsolicited bulk e-mail in the world, says anti-spammers have been harassing him for the past year. Lately, said Ralsky, anti-spammers started flooding him by snail mail with coupons, brochures and ads. "I just toss them right into the wastebasket," he said. "It doesn't bother me."
There's no surefire way to eliminate unwanted e-mail. But if you're determined to learn all you can about the problem, one of the best resources I've found lately is on Whew.com (www.whew.com/On-Line_Spam).
The site has a collection of articles and links to anti-spam news groups and Web sites. While the site's news links aren't as current as I'd like, as a one-source briefing it's pretty hard to beat.
December 13, 2002
Bloomfield Township spam artist Alan Ralsky is in the midst of yet another controversy, this time involving an anti-spam activist who says someone left him threatening telephone messages after he took photos of Ralsky's brand-new $740,000 house.
The activist, Rich Clark of Warren, said he's reported the threats -- which were left on his answering machine -- to police. He said it all started last weekend when he drove to Ralsky's neighborhood to snap some photos for an anti-spam Web site.
Clark said as he was taking his pictures from the street, someone left Ralsky's house, got into a black car and tried to block him from driving away. Clark said he maneuvered around the vehicle, but was followed.
The next day, the phone calls started.
"You don't know who the hell you were . . . with yesterday," began the first call. "You got the wrong guy. You don't even have the guy you think you do."
The caller then gave details about Clark's home, his driver's license number, even the bank his car was financed through.
A second call said: "I'm going to make your life so miserable you should watch every corner you go into, bro, every second."
The next day, there was still another message. "Just waiting for you," it said. "You haven't heard the beginning of what's going to happen to you yet. Keep your eyes open."
Clark provided me copies of the recordings. Are they from Ralsky? It was hard for me to tell. I asked Ralsky, and he said he knows nothing about it.
"Come on," said Ralsky, "That's ludicrous. I'm not that stupid."
He said he had no idea who was in the black car that Clark said left his driveway. "I don't have a black car," he said. "And I'm 57. I'm not about to go chasing anyone. But what was that guy doing taking pictures of my house for, anyway?"
Clark says he took the pictures to post on an anti-spam Web site (he hasn't decided which one). He now plans to add the audio files from the phone messages.
Warren police said Clark's report is on file, but there is no investigation in progress.
Ralsky, who is one of the biggest senders of unsolicited bulk e-mail in the world, says anti-spammers have been harassing him for the past year. Lately, said Ralsky, anti-spammers started flooding him by snail mail with coupons, brochures and ads. "I just toss them right into the wastebasket," he said. "It doesn't bother me."
There's no surefire way to eliminate unwanted e-mail. But if you're determined to learn all you can about the problem, one of the best resources I've found lately is on Whew.com (www.whew.com/On-Line_Spam).
The site has a collection of articles and links to anti-spam news groups and Web sites. While the site's news links aren't as current as I'd like, as a one-source briefing it's pretty hard to beat.
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