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

Author: Jorge

Date: 14:43:01 06/28/02

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On June 27, 2002 at 16:10:12, Roy Eassa wrote:

>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/


Those "background" pop-ups are soooo anoying >:|.


Thanks!
jorge



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