

Spam Ordeal 10
Geoffrey Huntley writes: "I was sent this URL the other day by a friend. It's a Web page detailing the efforts, Kane Bullen went through to get himself removed from a unsolicited mailing list, and ends up making a profit from it." Cute.
I've seem similar (Score:2)
As long as that is the only place your e-mail is published it should work.
I've heard of people getting $300 or $400 after spending an hour in court.
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Re:I've seem similar (Score:1)
Any suggestions on how to prevent friends from distributing your email address like this?
Re:I've seem similar (Score:1)
uuh... yeah.
1. Don't give your friends your email.
2. Get a new e-mail address and repeat 1.
3. install filters in your e-mail client
4. Or you could try something like what Mr. Huntley did.
I had a simillar problem but it was the same people over and over. eventually after many many e-mails begging them to stop they did. Though I doubt asking will work for you at this point.
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Bad HTML (Score:2)
Not such a great victory (Score:2)
I think of it as tripping and falling on the sidewalk in front of a business - If you bitch to the business owner, he'll probally pay you $n, where n is two digits, to replace your torn pants, as opposed to having n be 4 or 5 digits if he doesn't do anything and you decide to sue him for negligence.
So.... (Score:2)
Re:I've seem similar (Score:1)
2) I have a domain, unlimited email address, but I have to pick one for my reply-to address.
3) I don't want to filter my friends, and it's a pain in the ass to filter my friends' friends... this shouldn't happen in the first place.
4) I like this idea
Very Bad HTML (Score:1)
Well, I have had similar ideas about charging a "processing fee"... but most of the crap I receive doesn't come from reputable companies like the publisher of the investment magazine seems to be.
Apart from that, young Kane ought to read up on HTML a bit more, and think about closing the table... the browser won't render the table rows and cells until it encounters the </table> tag.
Re:Not such a great victory (Score:1)
Fake (Score:1)