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

Author: Robert Henry Durrett

Date: 17:36:23 06/11/02

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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.

I wouldn't know whether I had received it or not.  I routinely trash ALL email
from people I do not recognize.  I may lose a few good ones that way, but . . .

Incidentally, I recently discovered that it helps to disconnect from the
internet BEFORE clicking on any new messages in my inbox.  You would be
surprised at how many spam messages try to force my computer to send them return
mail. I refuse. No telling what information they are trying to get that way from
my computer.

Am I paranoid?

Bob D.



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