Today I received this:


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http://www.smstoday.co.uk/blog/2007/04/
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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.

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?


Annoyed,

Gabriele Neukam

Gabriele.Spamfighter.Neukam@t-online.de

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If everybody started to do what they think should be done for the
common
good, democracy would not exist anymore.
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Guillermito in alt.comp.virus