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| Thread ID: 61976 | 2005-09-22 22:15:00 | Spam is bad enough, but... | Greg (193) | PC World Chat |
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| 390422 | 2005-09-22 22:15:00 | ... when it comes from a local NZ business it's twice as bad. I've just had a conversation with computersonline.co.nz, and they advised me blatantly that they won't stop their spam. Sheesh! info@computersonline.co.nz |
Greg (193) | ||
| 390423 | 2005-09-22 22:23:00 | computersonline.co.nz | Peterj116 (6762) | ||
| 390424 | 2005-09-22 23:23:00 | computersonline.co.nz That's easy enough, but not the point. Spam from NZ'ers is like pooping in your own back yard. They shouldn't have harvested the addresses in the first place. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 390425 | 2005-09-22 23:53:00 | That's easy enough, but not the point. Spam from NZ'ers is like pooping in your own back yard. They shouldn't have harvested the addresses in the first place. Sorry. Can't agree with you there. Spam is advertising; just persistant & unwanted advertising. Having advertising in NZ is no shock at all. I signed up for the NZ Herald Jobwatch "service" once and it just happened to coincide with my poor old Slingshot mailbox suddenly getting spammed to death. But I'm sure that was just a coincidence. :D |
Peterj116 (6762) | ||
| 390426 | 2005-09-23 00:14:00 | I've just had a conversation with computersonline.co.nz, and they advised me blatantly that they won't stop their spam. Sheesh!IANAL, but for mailed personally addressed advertising you can make a formal request under the Privacy Act for the sender to remove your name from their mailing list. I don't know if that avenue is open to you for Spam, though. You could try contacting their ISP and complaining to them?? | Tony (4941) | ||
| 390427 | 2005-09-23 00:43:00 | Spam is merely the same as unwanted warehouse, supermarket or other rubbish etc being dumped in your home letterbox. Solution remove mail from box. For snail mail, screw into a ball, throw in rubbish. For E-mail, press delete. God that was hard... No wait, lets write a letter of complaint, keystrokes used, ooooh 200-500 as opposed to one. whinge, whinge, whinge. |
Veale (536) | ||
| 390428 | 2005-09-23 00:49:00 | The question of where they got your address from is the one I would be asking . IANAL but dosn't the privacy act (which would apply to a NZ company) say you can't take information for one purpose then use it for another? -Qyiet |
qyiet (6730) | ||
| 390429 | 2005-09-23 00:50:00 | Spam is merely the same as unwanted warehouse, supermarket or other rubbish etc being dumped in your home letterbox . Solution remove mail from box . For snail mail, screw into a ball, throw in rubbish . For E-mail, press delete . God that was hard . . . No wait, lets write a letter of complaint, keystrokes used, ooooh 200-500 as opposed to one . whinge, whinge, whinge . If all of us took that attitude, then there would be no need for controls on spam since we could simply delete the several hundred spams we would receive every day while sifting through them for personal emails . Duh . Not very bright . Unless you let some firms know how pissed off you are and would never buy from them because of their actions, they assume it is OK to continue the practise . |
user (1404) | ||
| 390430 | 2005-09-23 01:41:00 | The question of where they got your address from is the one I would be asking. Addresses. They harvested my customers' website contact forms. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 390431 | 2005-09-23 02:01:00 | I deal with spam faxes by telling them in writing that the next fax will cost them $500 +gst. It is not that simple of course, and I have specific terms and conditions that I apply, along with a "deemed acceptance" clause. It works very well, because they don't want to take the risk. I don't waste time with their "unsubscribe" facilites either, I lay it all back on them to contact whoever they use for spamming to get my fax number removed. That saves me having to do anything more, and it doesn't matter if the spam source is local or overseas, so long as the service or product is being offered locally by a NZ based entity and I have their contact details. The latter are easy to obtain because they want to sell me something.:D Yes, it is legal and enforceable. I have billed a repeat offender and after consultation with his lawyer, we received an acceptable offer in settlement of our invoice. I haven't tried this with spam emails, and it could only ever apply for local firms, but I'll wager better than even odds that they would delete my email address rather than try me on. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
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