
08-25-2003, 07:38 AM
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Oddworld Forums Owner J.J.'s Bad Robot
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: Jun 2000
: Melbourne, Australia, Oddworld
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Originally posted by Death
DO NOT reply to that email. It is an email address confirmer. If you reply, you will get more spam.
The only way that you can get spam, is if you have visited porn websites, or if you have signed up to recieve free services such as free webhosting.
It's sad but true.
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Yeah, I never reply to any of those emails. LOL
I know exactly why I get porn, because I caught one of my brothers looking at in on the computer once. Of course my email address was the registered one, so guess who gets stuck w/ it. I went and bought Norton Internet Security after I found out, but by then it was too late, the bastards already had my email address.
However, there is another way you also get spam ... and that is when your email address is listed publicly. I get spam to email addresses like webmistress@oddworld.au.com, info@oddworld.au.com and I never use those addresses other than to have them listed on my website. There's software out there that harvests email addresses from the internet .. I know, because my boss got me to try it out. LOL ... I hated having to do that. I guess that's what happens when your website is spidered for search engines, you get stuff like that too.
Well I see no one decided to waste their million dollars on that. Gotta love these online scams!
I used to believe in aliens and stuff ... I still kind of do, but not as much as I used to. I come across some people who just took it all too far, which kind of put me off believing in the whole thing.
Abe Babe...
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