Saturday, October 28, 2006

I hate innocent people

Hey kinda surprising, isn’t it? But this is about the all people who send me invite for sites. Let it be big or small. Generally I have subscription to all type of site that interests me. Still I get mailers from my few friends to register for some sites. I really get irrigated by this. Only Reason, most of them are new so could be in email harvesting. I hate spams. I hate my innocent friend who sent me a flowered to win Nokia phone keeping some spammers/email id harvester in CC. I have not able to counter spam in last 3 years. I had very jolly 4 years of usage. I didn't get even single Spam. I use service of GMX.net as my primary email. I send my personal mails from this id only, if at all. Now I get around 30 spams a day :((. So just ad advice, if you like a service take some effort to send a personal mail, drop an offline or scrap. Don't use ready-made mailer of websites. Do you know that these sites would keep 1 PX image in image to find the authenticity of the address and sell it? Just to tell you Spam is the biggest cost to ISP. Let us see the offline model first. If someone wants to send you unwanted postcards like "40 din mein takdeer badal gayi." My home in Bombay still gets such mails. The spammers have to spend money for that. But in case of online model it is your ISP who pays to mail server-hosting ISP when you open such a Spam. Totally opposite of offline model. Also, now spammers have become damn smart. They would scan Internet for PC with less security (Blame it on evil empire of Bill Gates called Windows, the most widespread but most useless OS) to use as relay for Spam. This way they can even hid the origin of Spam. So just an advice (1) Don't put anyone's mail id in any web page (2) Don't forward a mail for winning something. Those are just Spam. Remember the "Bill Gates is sharing his fortune" that was the biggest running online scam. It originated some 6 years back I still get mail of people expecting money for forwarding money. BTW, the reason I use Gmx.net as my primary email, because it is world's only ad-free POP-3 supported mail service provider.

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