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Subject: Re: For ICD, please no SPAM mails ... [OT]: PopUpCop

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 13:10:12 06/27/02

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On June 27, 2002 at 16:05:31, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>On June 27, 2002 at 15:38:51, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>please sent me no SPAM mails with context "Shopping time".
>>If not possible, please delete my membership here.
>>
>>The best way for this messages are webpages or this forum, but not mails to
>>members (in my opinion).
>>
>>Congrats for five years ICD!!
>>A messages with only this context is better ... think so!
>>
>>THANKS!
>>
>>Best
>>Frank
>
>I think that ICD's spam to members has been trivial in its quantity and
>offensiveness.
>
>Every day I get viruses in my email, and dozens of commercial "opportunities".
>
>If I ever do business with anyone on the web, I get spam from them weekly for
>the rest of my life.
>
>If I visit a web page, I get "pop under" ads, sometimes many of them.  I visited
>the Jerusalem Post site, and I ended up with five or ten pop-unders stacked on
>top of each other, all advertising the same thing.  I have to clear out ads for
>spy cameras several times a day, or they'll bring my system to a halt.
>
>So what Steve does doesn't bother me at all.  A trivial amount of email spam is
>little price to pay for having very very little spam on these message boards.
>I'd rather he spam me every week than put any of those satanic pop-under ads on
>his site.
>
>bruce


FWIW, I bought this and am very pleased (the programmer is a good guy and VERY
smart).  Complete control over nasties like pop-under ads and many other things:

http://www.popupcop.com/




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