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Topic: email spam from members
mackillian
Member
posted January 22, 2005 10:44 AM
Did anyone else get a VISIT email for a new forum started by a member who has posted I think three whole times?
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Dagonee
Member
posted January 22, 2005 10:53 AM
I got one - I didn't know he was a member from here, as I didn't recall any of his posts.
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mackillian
Member
posted January 22, 2005 11:01 AM
They were a couple threads along the same line as what the "new forum" is about.
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Annie
Member
posted January 22, 2005 11:02 AM
I received one and reported it as spam. Totally inappropriate.
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Bokonon
Member
posted January 22, 2005 11:04 AM
Man, I don't even get Hatrack spam... And no, all of you forwarding it to me doesn't count.
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Boris
Member
posted January 22, 2005 11:12 AM
I got one. I replied. I sent him a raspberry :>
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Hobbes
Member
posted January 22, 2005 11:12 AM
I got it too! First spam gmail has allowed in my inbox.
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mr_porteiro_head
Member
posted January 22, 2005 11:20 AM
Is that where that spam came from? Good to know.
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PSI Teleport
Member
posted January 22, 2005 11:25 AM
I got one. I think I'll also report it as spam.[ January 22, 2005, 11:26 AM: Message edited by: PSI Teleport ]
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Ryuko
Member
posted January 22, 2005 11:44 AM
quote: Hooray, no spam here! Maybe I haven't posted enough.
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Noemon
Member
posted January 22, 2005 11:59 AM
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celia60
Member
posted January 22, 2005 12:01 PM
he must have skipped the 'b's and 'c's since i didn't get any either. well some of the b's[ January 22, 2005, 12:01 PM: Message edited by: celia60 ]
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PSI Teleport
Member
posted January 22, 2005 12:06 PM
I meant report to Hotmail or something. I never got a chance to figure it out.
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Ryuko
Member
posted January 22, 2005 12:06 PM
Hmmm?
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Joldo
Member
posted January 22, 2005 12:08 PM
Luckily, my mind control powers allow me to stop him from ever getting the J's.
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celia60
Member
posted January 22, 2005 12:12 PM
i wonder if the hidden message is in the letters he chooses to spam, or the ones he avoids spamming.
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Lupus
Member
posted January 22, 2005 12:15 PM
I didn't get one either. I guess I am to scary to spam.
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Joldo
Member
posted January 22, 2005 12:31 PM
Nah, it's all in the mind control.
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ketchupqueen
Member
posted January 22, 2005 12:43 PM
I got one and reported it, but didn't know it was from here. What a loser. Very uncool.
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Ryuko
Member
posted January 22, 2005 12:53 PM
cbcklr?
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beverly
Member
posted January 22, 2005 12:54 PM
I'm a "b" and he got me.
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breyerchic04
Member
posted January 22, 2005 12:56 PM
I got one, so not all B's were skipped. I figured it was from here, but didn't really think of it as that bad, just ignored it.
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PSI Teleport
Member
posted January 22, 2005 12:59 PM
He probably just grabbed the names out of a particular thread and sent them to whoever posted there and had their email addresses visible.
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Ryuko
Member
posted January 22, 2005 01:01 PM
Awww. But my conspiracy-theory fun!
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mr_porteiro_head
Member
posted January 22, 2005 01:03 PM
I wonder if he just harvested email addresses from posters that posted in certain threads. That would be an easy way to do it.
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Hobbes
Member
posted January 22, 2005 01:05 PM
It'd be easier to just increment the profile urls over and over.
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Dagonee
Member
posted January 22, 2005 01:09 PM
He has a forum. It wouldn't be too hard to get some measure of revenge.
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PSI Teleport
Member
posted January 22, 2005 01:10 PM
I'm annoyed that the email is gone. I can't remember his name or the website name.
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Derrell
Member
posted January 22, 2005 02:13 PM
It was scifandhorror dot com
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Derrell
Member
posted January 22, 2005 02:14 PM
I think. It was something like that, anyway.
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ketchupqueen
Member
posted January 22, 2005 02:22 PM
That sounds like it to me, too. Let's go get him!
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Narnia
Member
posted January 22, 2005 02:25 PM
that's the site. I got one too and I recognized the name. It went straight to my inbox.
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MEC
Member
posted January 22, 2005 02:28 PM
I didn't get anything, then again, I've never gotten mail from hatrack.
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Derrell
Member
posted January 22, 2005 02:35 PM
scifihorror.com, that's it.
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Kama
Member
posted January 22, 2005 02:42 PM
Let's all spam him back.
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ketchupqueen
Member
posted January 22, 2005 02:51 PM
Just got it again. Here's the header:
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Derrell
Member
posted January 22, 2005 03:18 PM
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Goody Scrivener
Member
posted January 22, 2005 03:23 PM
Unfortunately Yahoo doesn't do a <bleeping> thing about spam sent by their users. Now that I see I'm not the only one that had the idea, I'm off to go spam him too. Wonder if there's a way to auto-bot message board posts to that site? <eg>
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ketchupqueen
Member
posted January 22, 2005 03:30 PM
Well, thank you, but I don't think it's that good. [ January 22, 2005, 03:30 PM: Message edited by: ketchupqueen ]
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ketchupqueen
Member
posted January 22, 2005 03:31 PM
Dag, was the reply about guest posting you? 'Cause it's spot-on!
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Dagonee
Member
posted January 22, 2005 03:38 PM
*whistles innocently*
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ketchupqueen
Member
posted January 22, 2005 03:48 PM
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Dagonee
Member
posted January 22, 2005 03:54 PM
I'm thinking it might be good to do no more than a couple posts. Maybe he can realize he did something wrong and reform.
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Nato
Member
posted January 22, 2005 03:59 PM
*sigh* Things like this make me wish my email address was only visible to cool people or something.
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