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Comments: Some scumsite called greatbignews.com is spamming me and has the nerve to claim I opted in. Did I hell as like. Get them off my back, or tell me how to talk to them - their bastard website which you constructed for them has no contact details. I want to hear back from you. I want to hear back from greatbignews.com as well. I want an apology from everyone concerned. It's people like you who make the Internet a rat-race.

All unsolicited company bulk e mails should have an opt out option with them. I take It yours doesn't?

Thank you for your message. If you can provide me with some information about who is sending you the emails, I can ensure that you are unsubscribed.

greatBIGnews is a direct email marketing service that is used by a large number of our clients around the world, and each of our clients maintains their own email lists – where they are each responsible for obtaining receiver permission before adding to one of their lists.

Unfortunately, we have no way of determining which of our clients has added you without permission, or to which of their individual lists you may be subscribed. In the email that you received, there is an easy way to unsubscribe yourself from any mailing you received that is delivered through the greatBIGnews platform.

If you would like to forward me the email you received, I can remove you on your behalf. I will also then be able to contact the client to pass on your complaint regarding being added without permission.

I look forward to being able to resolve this for you.

oscar;1386784 wrote: All unsolicited company bulk e mails should have an opt out option with them. I take It yours doesn't?


Anyone crazy enough to click an opt-out link on spam deserves to be sectioned for their own protection.

greatBIGnews;1386786 wrote: If you would like to forward me the email you received, I can remove you on your behalf. I will also then be able to contact the client to pass on your complaint regarding being added without permission.

I look forward to being able to resolve this for you.


If you run the platform then you have, in my opinion, a responsibility to sanction clients who break your terms. If your terms don't include legitimate opt-in then the fault for what happened lies squarely with you.

By all means inquire of your client where they got the opt-in permission to write to my email account "john@bs8.net", I'd be delighted to hear their response.

from FlySunwing.co.uk flysunwing-c@greatbignews.com

to JOHN@bs8.net

date 5 March 2012 18:32

subject Champagne Fights to Toronto from £329

How many unsolicited emails caused such consternation ?

Just out of interest.

One. I picked on one out of the approximately 3,000 I get each month. Most are scammers, I was annoyed precisely because this one wasn't a scammer, was unsolicited and was well targeted. I loathe bulk emailers who send email to people who've never heard of them before and I suspect I loathe the people who run platforms to facilitate them, too.

What on earth are you doing to attract 3,000 emails a month ?

A man with your obvious web nous should be able to know what it is surely.

(Is that your real email address? Do you show your real email address willy nilly?)

All I know to do is go back to my mail server and mark this crap as spam, and It gets dropped in the trash before I see another one.

I never reply, opt-out or react to such stuff.

IT is terribly annoying.

On a side note, there are two people, one in Michigan and one in Texas that, for some reason, give my email address to businesses.

The Michigan guy bought a car at a Toyota dealer, and I constantly get marketing crap, and alerts for scheduled maintenance and such.

I have his name and even found him on Facebook.

He has yet to correct the thing.

The Texas guy has an account with RedBox, and I keep getting stuff from them. I know what movies he rents. Also getting stuff from realtors. Apparently, he is looking for a house. He also has a Sears Card. I get his statements by email. I know what he buys at Sears.

Were I malicious, I could probably wreak havoc in these peoples' financial lives.

Bruv;1386794 wrote: What on earth are you doing to attract 3,000 emails a month ?

A man with your obvious web nous should be able to know what it is surely.

(Is that your real email address? Do you show your real email address willy nilly?)


Yes it is and yes I do, and my phone number and postal address are in my profile as well. I have a legitimate right to display my email address without every fornicating profiteer in the world writing to me afterwards on the slight chance of doing business with me. The fact that 95% of my emails are consequently unsolicited bulk mailshots isn't my fault, it's down to the vultures who send them and the unclean technicians who prostitute their talents by building effective UBE platforms.

This email I've complained about wasn't random, the sender obviously bought a mailing list of potentially hot prospects. The fact remains that I never, under any circumstances, tick "third party permission" boxes, and my email address has been sold as a sideline profit without my consent and bought by someone who didn't care enough to find out.

spot;1386800 wrote: Yes it is and yes I do, and my phone number and postal address are in my profile as well. I have a legitimate right to display my email address without every fornicating profiteer in the world writing to me afterwards on the slight chance of doing business with me. The fact that 95% of my emails are consequently unsolicited bulk mailshots isn't my fault, it's down to the vultures who send them and the unclean technicians who prostitute their talents by building effective UBE platforms.


So, we should all forward to you our joke e-mails we get every day. I'm in. How bout everyone else?

YZGI;1386801 wrote: So, we should all forward to you our joke e-mails we get every day. I'm in. How bout everyone else?


I'm delighted to receive emails from people I know irrespective of the inanities they so frequently contain.

spot;1386800 wrote: Yes it is and yes I do, and my phone number and postal address are in my profile as well. I have a legitimate right to display my email address without every fornicating profiteer in the world writing to me afterwards on the slight chance of doing business with me. The fact that 95% of my emails are consequently unsolicited bulk mailshots isn't my fault..............................




You have the legitimate right to display all your jewelry and expensive cameras while traveling on the London underground.

You have the legitimate right to join the opposing supporters section at any league game in the world and vent your support loudly.

You have the legitimate right to hang about Wimbledon Common wearing a paisley shirt and Village people moustache and leather shorts.



But it isn't always wise to do so.......................

Bruv;1386805 wrote: You have the legitimate right to hang about Wimbledon Common wearing a paisley shirt and Village people moustache and leather shorts.That's unkind of you, I'd just about succeeded in permanently eliminating that incident from my memory.

spot;1386806 wrote: That's unkind of you, I'd just about succeeded in permanently eliminating that incident from my memory.
Yea right......you say that ....but.....

Bruv;1386807 wrote: Yea right......you say that ....but.....As I told you when you dropped me at the tube station, next time you're driving past Wimbledon Common looking for a bit of action pick on someone who knows the implications of dressing that way in London. Where I live it's perfectly normal attire, we're not sophisticated.

spot;1386808 wrote: . Where I live it's perfectly normal attire, we're not sophisticated.


I'm sure the rest of Bristol would be horrified to be Included In that statement and your Steptoesque existence.

oscar;1386818 wrote: I'm sure the rest of Bristol would be horrified to be Included In that statement and your Steptoesque existence.


Which Steptoe do you imagine wore a paisley shirt and Village people moustache and leather shorts? The problem, I fear, lies as ever in your foetid imagination. Neither could have done such a thing. In Bristol on the other hand... try an early evening in the Griffin or the Queen's Shilling and you'll find out. In August when it's sunny.

YZGI;1386801 wrote: So, we should all forward to you our joke e-mails we get every day. I'm in. How bout everyone else?


I think this thread was no more than a ruse.

By publishing his e mail address, he's hoping for some mail,

spot;1386808 wrote: Where I live it's perfectly normal to publish our email address, so that any Tom Dick and Harry and their crawlers get a good harvest, we're not sophisticated.


You can say that again......



spot;1386808 wrote: Where I live it's perfectly normal to publish our email address, so that any Tom Dick and Harry and their crawlers get a good harvest, we're not sophisticated.


That was rhetorical.................oh never mind.

There are a lot of myths about good practice on the Internet, Bruv. I think perhaps you've swallowed a few over the years. Do you try to remember passwords too?

spot;1386826 wrote: There are a lot of myths about good practice on the Internet, Bruv. I think perhaps you've swallowed a few over the years. Do you try to remember passwords too?


It's not me getting 3,000 emails a month.

Bruv;1386827 wrote: It's not me getting 3,000 emails a month.


But then, you don't run a dozen domains either.

spot;1386828 wrote: But then, you don't run a dozen domains either.


OK then.......I don't get 250 emails a month

spot;1386826 wrote: There are a lot of myths about good practice on the Internet, Bruv. I think perhaps you've swallowed a few over the years. Do you try to remember passwords too?


Um, should we try and forget them?

Bruv;1386830 wrote: OK then.......I don't get 250 emails a month


Not even the penis enlargment ones? Hmm I must be going to the wrong sites

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YZGI;1386832 wrote: Not even the penis enlargment ones? Hmm I must be going to the wrong sites

.


Maybe I should get out more.

Bruv;1386830 wrote: OK then.......I don't get 250 emails a monthThere are conventional addresses associated with every domain, lots of spam comes in on (for example) postmaster@, sales@, enquiries@, info@ and on a couple of my domains it's necessary for me to accept email without rejecting on accounts I've not set up. Far more spam comes in by those routes than because I make my email address visible to harvesters.



YZGI;1386831 wrote: Um, should we try and forget them?In my opinion, yes. "The only really safe place for a password is on paper. If you restrict all your passwords to what you can remember it stands to reason they'll be poor and repetitive and predictable and quite often permanently mislaid".

spot;1386800 wrote: Yes it is and yes I do, and my phone number and postal address are in my profile as well. I have a legitimate right to display my email address without every fornicating profiteer in the world writing to me afterwards on the slight chance of doing business with me. The fact that 95% of my emails are consequently unsolicited bulk mailshots isn't my fault, it's down to the vultures who send them and the unclean technicians who prostitute their talents by building effective UBE platforms.

This email I've complained about wasn't random, the sender obviously bought a mailing list of potentially hot prospects. The fact remains that I never, under any circumstances, tick "third party permission" boxes, and my email address has been sold as a sideline profit without my consent and bought by someone who didn't care enough to find out.


I was beginning to feel sorry for you .......but not now, you're on your own .

Next time I get drunk, I'm calling spot at 2 AM.

Lets all get drunk and call spot !!! I'll do the 3am shift