Re: you're priceless

[rhys daily <shadow at teuton_org>]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Don Smith wrote:

> That site made me very nervous.  Here it asks you to put in all kinds
> of critical demographic data, including your email address, and then
> provides some figure, with no explanation I could see for an algorithm
> as to how that figure was derived.  Now, they could be on the up and
> up, but if they were spam-collectors, they could easily make a
> database of that information and sell it to advertisers who could then
> tailor-target you for spam emails.  I mean, I can't think of any other
> reason why they would insist on getting your email address rather than
> just displaying the answer on your web browser.  Does anyone know
> anything about the people who set this up?  I'm usually a pretty
> trusting guy, but this just seems way too fishy to me.

right because every latina who is 5'10" and in the 'other' category will
of course be interested in ..super wonderful bargains about some new toy.

i dunno.

i have an awesome spamfilter.

i hate spam.  you spam me, and i will bounce it back to you with a 666
message 'this system does not accept unsolicited email in accordance with
the law'

i don't lioke junk mail either. so i take the self-addr thing in side and
send it back. or just use my 'return to sender' stamp.

then they have to pay postage. when i want to buy, i will go an look for
the info i want. if you pressure me - i won't buy. i will go somewhere
else.

i like being left alone (:

rhys

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