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Re: [Asrg] Anti-spam laws do work, FYI. There's proof.

On August 2, 2004 at 17:04 jswitte at bloomington.in.us (Jim Witte) wrote:
 >    I have no idea how I got on some of these things.  No doubt some were 
 > that I signed up to receive mail from ONE site/company, and they sold 
 > the address to a list that a porn company uses.  That is a loophole 
 > that I think should be made illegal, or at least have a mandatory 
 > opt-out/in provision attached ("Can my email be sold").

There are a thousand ways you could have gotten onto a spammer's list.

Does your email address appear on a web page in a mailto:, for
example?

They fish all kinds of sources like that.

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