Gabriele Neukam wrote:
> Today I received this:

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> Looking at the results provided in the mail I found that one link
> points to a mirror of usenet groups, and rather old. All others won't
> mention me at all. No wonder, as I am neither interested in *any* kind
> of messaging nor any movies. Go figure.
>
> So, contrary to their claims they are obviously worse than Google
> Groups, which wouldn't miss that grossly.

The website says it's still in beta.

> What does that mean? Do they want me to pull into their
> Idunnowhatitis, is it meant as a warning that they now have me
> entrenched in their data files and will begin to pummel me with their
> useless "notifications"? Will they (ab)use my adress (which has been
> the target of spammers for years) and sell it to other persons?
>
> Why do they want me to *opt out* though I never have visited their
> domain at all? They even conceded that "someone else" (I would rally
> like to know who, after they had given my address away so graciously)
> did it, a person which must have inadvertently hit a few links while
> looking up a few unimportant discussions.
>
> Is this a new kind of "user embrace", meaning: either follow our rules
> or you'll never ever get out of our data files again?

http://www.abinventio.com/

http://www.ostina.org/content/view/3042/

They claim to have been recognized by TechCrunch, but I can't find any
such recognition.

> Annoyed,
>
> Gabriele Neukam
>
> Gabriele.Spamfighter.Neukam@t-online.de

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