Spammed by a recruiting company
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Tinstafl, if it upsets you so much, why have your e-mail on your profile? Or is that an ego thing perhaps? Stop being a pr!ck, that site has proved valuable to some, but as you probably have no airline experience you are just miffed at those that do, get a life.
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Another slant on this chaps, it is possible that if any of you have put your occupation on any internet transaction, and not ticked the privacy box, the company you are trading with may have sold your name and details on.
Obviously these details go into the big worldwide web melting pot, where every last part of your personal life is dissected for marketing purposes, and passed on.
Sad, but true.
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It wasn't me.
Obviously these details go into the big worldwide web melting pot, where every last part of your personal life is dissected for marketing purposes, and passed on.
Sad, but true.
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It wasn't me.
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Oh God! What an awful weekend.
I'm a failure - no-one sent me anything.
Perhaps I'm just 'sub-spamdard'
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I'm a failure - no-one sent me anything.
Perhaps I'm just 'sub-spamdard'
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[email protected]
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Yogi Driver
These people run their site for a profit. Registration on their site is a loss leader for them, with the goal of enticing registrants to pay for their other services.
One of the conditions of this site is that the solicitations are not appropriate. Danny et. al. provides PPRuNe at some cost to themselves, and enables a legitimate form ofh advertising to defray some of their financial burdon.
A legitimate means of advertising one's wares is provided through the paid format available on this site.
Do you find it acceptable that an organisation should engage in unsolicited activities that are contrary to conditions of the site from which they sourced their information?
Perhaps you find it acceptable that their activities result in a financial cost to many of those whom they target?
Or maybe you find it acceptable that their activities at the very least cause the recipient to waste their time removing their unwanted email from their PC?
You seem to think it acceptable to engage in these sort of practices.
I notice that you choose not to display your email address. Why not? Worried that some organisation would choose to misuse it? Obviously not with regard to the organisation concerned, judging by your support for them.
Why don't you send me your email address & I'll make sure that they receive it so that you too can share in the joyous reception of one of their communications.
BTW, I'm not the only one who considers their activities to be unwelcome or unethical. I take it you you feel that we all need to "...get a life."?
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These people run their site for a profit. Registration on their site is a loss leader for them, with the goal of enticing registrants to pay for their other services.
One of the conditions of this site is that the solicitations are not appropriate. Danny et. al. provides PPRuNe at some cost to themselves, and enables a legitimate form ofh advertising to defray some of their financial burdon.
A legitimate means of advertising one's wares is provided through the paid format available on this site.
Do you find it acceptable that an organisation should engage in unsolicited activities that are contrary to conditions of the site from which they sourced their information?
Perhaps you find it acceptable that their activities result in a financial cost to many of those whom they target?
Or maybe you find it acceptable that their activities at the very least cause the recipient to waste their time removing their unwanted email from their PC?
You seem to think it acceptable to engage in these sort of practices.
I notice that you choose not to display your email address. Why not? Worried that some organisation would choose to misuse it? Obviously not with regard to the organisation concerned, judging by your support for them.
Why don't you send me your email address & I'll make sure that they receive it so that you too can share in the joyous reception of one of their communications.
BTW, I'm not the only one who considers their activities to be unwelcome or unethical. I take it you you feel that we all need to "...get a life."?
[This message has been edited by Tinstaafl (edited 18 June 2001).]
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Nice one Tinstaafl.
Yogi Driver,
Most of us have our email on display so other people can contact us privately etc. We shouldn’t have to hide our email address (like you do) so that we don’t get spammed. I am sick of removing 20 + junk emails per day from my other email account, and I really don’t want the same to happen to my PPRuNe account.
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Flying is easy - just throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Yogi Driver,
Most of us have our email on display so other people can contact us privately etc. We shouldn’t have to hide our email address (like you do) so that we don’t get spammed. I am sick of removing 20 + junk emails per day from my other email account, and I really don’t want the same to happen to my PPRuNe account.
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Flying is easy - just throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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A possible answer to having your email address on display but unavailable to trawling machines is to put the word "NOSPAM" in it. People then can check your addy, remove the "NOSPAM" and then use it.
PS - OOPS! Sorry - forget that. I forgot that when you change your email address it changes your password and tries to send you the new one - to an incorrect address, so you've just permanently locked yourself out of PPRuNe.
Silly idea. Forget it.
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Breeding Per Dementia Unto Something Jolly Big, Toodle-pip
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PS - OOPS! Sorry - forget that. I forgot that when you change your email address it changes your password and tries to send you the new one - to an incorrect address, so you've just permanently locked yourself out of PPRuNe.
Silly idea. Forget it.
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Breeding Per Dementia Unto Something Jolly Big, Toodle-pip
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Woohoo!
They missed me.
Yogi, wash your mouth out. Although he doesn't say so Tins is a very experienced pilot so there's another point you're wrong on.
Just read your profile. Good job you included the 'heavy' bit. People might have assumed you didn't have a proper job otherwise, eh?
They missed me.
Yogi, wash your mouth out. Although he doesn't say so Tins is a very experienced pilot so there's another point you're wrong on.
Just read your profile. Good job you included the 'heavy' bit. People might have assumed you didn't have a proper job otherwise, eh?
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How to get revenge on spammers:
Post their email address onto a newsgroup.
When that gets trawled by a Spambot (program that searches for email addresses) then they will start to get spam in return!
Just make sure you don't put your true 'from' or 'reply to' address.
Post their email address onto a newsgroup.
When that gets trawled by a Spambot (program that searches for email addresses) then they will start to get spam in return!
Just make sure you don't put your true 'from' or 'reply to' address.
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ESG gave me this tip many moons ago. Save all your spam in a folder. When you get one like the one you - and me - got. I send them the whole folder full of spam. It might not do much good. But it made me feel good.
BTW, why is there always a smart a*se with attitude on these kind of threads? Funny that! Perhaps he should change his aeroplane before bits fall off!!!!!!
