Re: [CH] Chile spam? and a nice recipe
Eric Wersel (ewersel@meritind.com)
Tue, 25 Feb 2003 08:23:15 -0500
I got it too, and agree with Virginia. Jim, 'fess up and/or explain, please.
At 12:02 PM 2/25/03 +0000, Virginia Anderson wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Has anyone else experienced the following?
>
>I've just got an email from the Plaiedes Group - Jim DeLillo - saying that
>I've either ordered something from him (which I have not) or signed up for
>information (which I have not). It's on one of those irritating HTML emails
>which keeps trying to connect my machine to the web. The body of the text
>says that Jim has hired an email marketing company to handle his mail list
>and that to opt out I have to send a mail to them to desubscribe.
>
>Now I thought Jim was one of the stalwarts here, yet someone in his name has
>given my address to a marketing company. I'm not opting out through the
>link provided because to unsubscribe I'd have to prove that that address is
>working, and, in any case, there's no guarantee that my address will not be
>kept on to be sold to other spam lists. That's how these guys get free,
>good, addresses.
>
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>
>Grumpily,
>
>Virginia
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