It's all a load of Cannonballs in here! This is the virtual Arsenal pub where you can chat about anything except football. Be warned though, like any pub, the content may not always be suitable for everyone.
Personally, I don't want to by Viagra from a Canadian chemist. I don't want to make a personal injury claim. I don't want to meet a facebook fuckbuddy. I don't want to try to double my income "in only a few minutes a day". I don't want to sign up to an online university and gain an instant diploma. I don't want to double the speed of my computer. I don't want to claim back thousands of pounds compensation for mis-sold payment protection insurance (I'll do that myself thank you, and keep all my money to myself). I don't want to study for a diploma in dentistry. I don't want a course in creative writing, and publish a book. The list is endless.
I'm on Hotmail. I add all these spamming bastards to my "blocked list". But spammers pass email addresses to other spammers. They are all *word censored*.
Rant over. How does spam affect you lot? Have you ever received useful spam? Should there be laws against these time wasters? Does anyone have a strategy for annoying the annoyers?
I have had about one percent of the population of Nigeria write to me promising me that if I advanced them a small sum of money (£5,000) then it would facilitate access to large sums of money held in the account of a dead person, of which I would get a cut of about £1M.
The infamous 419 scam.
But useful spam?
"Invest in Brazilian Eulcalyptus rainforests with a return of 8% personally backed by the Brazilian government?"
No thanks, that probably means my money goes to pay the whoring bills of a very small Arsenal fan somewhere in the south of Brazil who has mysteriously vanished in the last two months.
"Diet pills promising weight loss of up to 20lbs in two weeks?"
If I lost 20lbs in two weeks I would be blown over by a gust of wind with less power than one of Augie's farts.
"East European women just gagging for it?"
Do not need to send off for a catalogue, can walk to my local pub where they have a weekly Polish Hip Hop and Czech food evening!"
olgitgooner wrote:One of the most annoying things on the planet.
Personally, I don't want to by Viagra from a Canadian chemist. I don't want to make a personal injury claim. I don't want to meet a facebook fuckbuddy. I don't want to try to double my income "in only a few minutes a day". I don't want to sign up to an online university and gain an instant diploma. I don't want to double the speed of my computer. I don't want to claim back thousands of pounds compensation for mis-sold payment protection insurance (I'll do that myself thank you, and keep all my money to myself). I don't want to study for a diploma in dentistry. I don't want a course in creative writing, and publish a book. The list is endless.
I'm on Hotmail. I add all these spamming bastards to my "blocked list". But spammers pass email addresses to other spammers. They are all *word censored*.
Rant over. How does spam affect you lot? Have you ever received useful spam? Should there be laws against these time wasters? Does anyone have a strategy for annoying the annoyers?
There is a law but it's a UK law. The problem is that the internet and email is international. The UK legislation can't be enforced overseas.
"Electronic mail (emails and text, picture, video and answer-phone messages
Electronic mail marketing messages should not be sent to individuals without their permission unless all these following criteria are met:
•The marketer has obtained your details through a sale or negotiations for a sale.
•The messages are about similar products or services offered by the sender.
•You were given an opportunity to refuse the marketing when your details were collected and, if you did not refuse, you were given a simple way to opt out in every future communication.
We may be able to help if:
1.you have received an electronic mail marketing message which you did not ask for or which does not otherwise comply with the above criteria;
2.the sender is based in the UK; and
3.you can identify the sender.
The regulations do not cover electronic mail marketing messages sent to businesses."
