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Subject: Re: Spam from Chess Informant, harvesting email addresses from CCC

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 15:07:44 06/11/02

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On June 11, 2002 at 14:47:52, Steven Schwartz wrote:

>On June 11, 2002 at 12:44:40, Tim Mann wrote:
>
>>Are other people here on CCC getting Chess Informant spam from ecob@sezampro.yu?
>> They must have harvested my email address from CCC, because they sent today's
>>spam to an address that I use nowhere else but in my CCC profile
>>(chess@tim-mann.org).
>>
>>In the past, Chess Informant has sent spam to other email addresses of mine and
>>has ignored requests to remove me from their list, so I'm pretty annoyed with
>>these guys.  I thought Chess Informant was a legitimate business, so it
>>surprises me that they persist in spamming.
>
>
>
>AAARRRGGGHHH!!!
>I can live with receiving spam. I can't live with companies that
>have bogus "remove" email files or removal URLs that lead to nowhere.
>Nevertheless, that's a subject for CTF, not here.
>
>I can only assure all CCC and CTF members that we have NEVER,
>EVER given nor sold emails addresses of anyone to anyone, period!

We trust in that. Tim used the word harvesting wich (imo) doesn't suggest they
just got/bought the adresses.

Tony

>
>Seems to me that trying to get them one at a time from members
>who post is pretty lame. They must be a first class organization
>if that is what they are doing.
>
>I received one of those myself but since my address was a Bcc,
>it does not show which address they actually emailed to.
>AAARRRRGGGGHHH!!!
>Steve (ICD/Your Move Chess & Games)



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