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Providing the user's Email address doesn't work[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#7)
by Anonymous User on Fri Aug 10, 2007 at 12:24:55 PM PDT

If AOL were to provide Email addresses, that would be a bad thing. It's the same reason why "remove me" requests don't work. Spammers don't care. If you reply to a spammer's remove address, you'll likely end up getting more spam than ever. The spammer will add your address to a "confirmed working" list. See the tale of "Nadine" at http://www.honet.com/Nadine/ for an example.

As an aside, SPAM is Hormel's meat product in a can. It's "spam" (lower case - it's not an acronym) that's UBE.
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Ron

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Nonissue[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#9)
by Anonymous User on Sat Aug 11, 2007 at 03:33:49 PM PDT

Wouldn't matter if the spammer did add the address to a "confirmed working" list. They'd send a few more spams and the AOL would block them and the user would stop receiving their spams. Only they'd have a chance to remove the user requesting removal and avoid being blocked by AOL. Of course if they honor removes they're not nearly as bad as the typical spammer and perhaps not really a spammer at all.

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WTF?[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#10)
by Anonymous User on Sat Aug 11, 2007 at 03:36:22 PM PDT

www.honet.com: Host unknown

'nuff said.

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Hey![ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#15)
by Anonymous User on Tue Aug 14, 2007 at 08:21:58 AM PDT

Will someone please supply the correct URL? http://www.honet.com/Nadine/  doesn't work

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Here's an alternate[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#16)
by Anonymous User on Tue Aug 14, 2007 at 10:11:04 AM PDT

You've got DNS problems, as it works every time for me. Unfortunately, I can't just give you an IP address, as it uses a "smart" host and looks for the domain name.

Try this alternate: http://static.samspade.org/mirror/www.honet.com/Nadine/
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Ron

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Hrm[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#26)
by Anonymous User on Wed Aug 15, 2007 at 10:37:36 AM PDT

That link works. Thanks. But I don't have DNS problems. If I had, I couldn't have made that post, since www.gripe2ed.com would also have not resolved.

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