Chances are that you were sold as data to these people and they are doing it correctly as dictated by law. If you subscribed to a website (i.e. Wells Fargo) and didn't check the option not to be including with this stuff, you essentially signed up for all of these mailing lists. Most of these are not email harvesters and thus you are not confirming your existance by unsubscribing, unlike all those pacific rim spammers. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Nemchenko" <drew at usfamily.net> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 5:13 AM Subject: [TCLUG] decent SPAM? (OT) > Lately I've been getting messages from paid4survey.net offering me free gifts if > I take their surveys. I'm not sure how they found me but all of that is not the > point. The point that I'm trying to make is that at the bottom of the message > there is a small link which you can click to get removed from their list. I was > surprised to see that the link was not to a non existing email address but > rather to a web site where I chose the un subscribe option. Then it apologized > for the inconvenience and told me that I was removed. Just to double check I > clicked on the same link again, and was told that I could not be un subscribed > because no such account existed. I was so surprised to see a spam list that I > was able to un subscribe from that I just had to write about it. Perhaps if > other lists were like this then it would not be so bad. > > > > ------ http://USFamily.Net/info - Unlimited Internet - From $8.99/mo! ------ >