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Re: Be careful what you wish for I agree. We don't want ANY SPAM!
Another issue----
Who gets to see this list again of almost every valid email address in the country?
You know it will contain 99% of all the email addresses of everyone in the country, don't you? NOBODY WANTS SPAM!
I almost think it is simply an attempt to have everyone volunteer their info so they can be put in a database for some other use.
Hummmmmm...
The bottom line trusted and true way to stop spam (or limit it) is to only give friends and family a "real address" and use a throwaway account for anything on the internet.
If someone gets your real one, simply delete it and get another.
This also is a prime example why my 2 dogs get more credit card offers and other junk mail at my home than I do.
i bet they have more credit than I do by now. |
| said by kilingspam:
The bottom line trusted and true way to stop spam (or limit it) is to only give friends and family a "real address" and use a throwaway account for anything on the internet.
If someone gets your real one, simply delete it and get another.
Call me old-fashioned, but I want people who have fallen out of touch with me to be able to get back in touch a year from now, a decade from now, or a lifetime from now.
I've kept the same phone number for a gazillion years, and my primary email address has also been constant for a gazillion years.
I'm hoping that authorities will step in and let me keep it that way.
There is hope, IMHO, because my anti-solicitation crusade against junk phone calls has worked. Do-not-call lists are actually semi-effective; my phone is a lot quieter than my email in-box.
I do not want to throw in the towel and "get a new email address"--that would, in essence, let the terrorists win. I would be poorer, spiritually, in my old age as long-time friends who might otherwise be able to reach me no longer could. |
