Priorities and importance (2011/10/31)
Places say “your privacy is important to us, please allow ten business days for your opt-out request to be processed.” Lies.
[read more...]Why permission matters. (2011/10/26)
A guy I know recently started getting daily emails from eHarmony, a dating site.
[read more...]I believe in ESPs (2011/07/13)
So, there’s a category of business which I am by default not much inclined to like, which is businesses which do pretty much nothing that isn’t focused on sending email. You might call such businesses “spammers”. But there’s a subset of these businesses which, I am now forced to grudgingly admit, reduce the amount of spam I get.
[read more...]NetProspex: Verified spam. (2010/11/23)
I recently got spammed by some entity called NetProspex, which claims to have “verified” lists of various business people. They had one of my email addresses associated with my name, and were informing me that from time to time companies using their service would be contacting me with information they thought would be of interest to my business.
[read more...]Bye, Newegg. We liked you when you were still good. (2010/08/30)
So, Newegg started sending spam.
[read more...]TaxAct users: BEWARE! Personal data leak. (2008/04/18)
I just got spam to the unique tagged address I gave to the TaxAct people a while back when I bought their tax software. (Not this year, either.)
[read more...]Very Silly Party (2007/08/18)
I get comment spammers. Mostly I just nuke them. This one was spamming some site, but the name was great. This was the spammer’s “user name”:
[read more...]Those annoying car stickers (2007/04/28)
So, every so often, someone plasters my car with little stickers advertising some kind of “earn $$$” thing. “If you have an extra 8-12 hours per week and desire to earn an extra $8000-1,000 a month”.
[read more...]Integris Mortgage followup (2007/03/23)
Integris Mortgage finally got around to hiring lawyers. I suspect they’re paying a lot of money, because these guys sure love to write stuff.
[read more...]Frys still going... (2006/12/15)
Just for reference, the Frys spam run to old addresses is still going; I just got my fourth. So far, I have gotten no response from them, despite sending all the requested emails, jumping through hoops, and so on… And yes, I’m still getting mail from them.
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