solid spammed me!

meth0dical · #1 (**permalink**) Sep 16, 04

i look in my hotmail junk mail folder and low and behold, dooms night spam! i dont remember signing up for any solid event updates...
thank god for junk mail filters..

Kandyapple · #2 (**permalink**) Sep 16, 04

I get spamed on a regular basis. Twisted, solid, lots of other promoters around the city. They mostly go into junk mail. But man do they take up a lot of space.

meth0dical · #3 (**permalink**) Sep 16, 04

i signed up for twisted :P
but not solid!

Kandyapple · #4 (**permalink**) Sep 16, 04

haha i didn't sign up for any. But i get like 4-5 different companys every couple weeks.
it just sucks sometimes because if they come at the same time. My inbox is too full to recieve anything else. The flyers they post are anywhere from 60-300 kb.

meth0dical · #5 (**permalink**) Sep 16, 04

you can always ignore messages from that address/domain

meth0dical · #6 (**permalink**) Sep 16, 04

we see enough about the info on fnk anyways :P

PwInCeSs · #7 (**permalink**) Sep 16, 04

i dunt get them
yay for me

LaMzWeLL · #8 (**permalink**) Sep 16, 04

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Originally Posted by meth0dical

i signed up for twisted :P
but not solid!

maybe twisted sold solid their mailing list lol

Veni*C · #9 (**permalink**) Sep 16, 04

^^ or mabie they stole it. :p

automatic · #10 (**permalink**) Sep 16, 04

yeah, or maybe your email address is in your fnk profile and they took it from there donkey chops!!! rule of thumb, if you're signing up for a forum-type website where you have to give your email address to get verified you have to make up a fake hotmail account with a really outrageous name like [email protected] or [email protected] and use that to sign up, then abandon that account forever. it takes like 5 minutes, and anyone that you want to talk to you can give them the real one in a pm....

e_BoY · #11 (**permalink**) Sep 16, 04

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Originally Posted by PwInCeSs

i dunt get them
yay for me

same we get enough spam on fnk already

tones6 · #12 (**permalink**) Sep 19, 04

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Originally Posted by e_BoY

same we get enough spam on fnk already

very true!

lola_phyne · #13 (**permalink**) Sep 19, 04

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Originally Posted by ~Veni_C~

^^ or mabie they stole it. :p

LOL..........

Sir_K · #14 (**permalink**) Sep 20, 04

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Originally Posted by meth0dical

i look in my hotmail junk mail folder and low and behold, dooms night spam! i dont remember signing up for any solid event updates...
thank god for junk mail filters..

There is a difference between highly targeted marketing and spam.

IE.

You receive a *Special Discount* on Viagra for new customers over age 55 who live in the US.

vs.

You receive an email about a party by a company you know, that plays the types of music you listen to, and is talked about by people you know online.

Its obviously debatable since theres no real fixed definition of "email spam", and some people consider email spam anything you didnt ask for, some will choose either side of the spam / not spam fence....

I just think someone sending an email to you about a party you have probably considered going to or have friends who are going to is a far cry from offering you Viagra pills discounted from California rates for US residents, offering "free" access to porn, or some other "special one time offer" that couldnt be directed towards someone more different than you.

This argument has been hashed and rehashed over and over again, so if your opinion differs from mine thats your perrogative. All I'm saying is that a targeted broadcast message to a select audience isnt the spam problem at all, its people who send out literally hundreds of millions of messages per month that is what I would consider "spam" in the harmful sense of the word.

meth0dical · #15 (**permalink**) Sep 20, 04

^all i see is blah blah blah
spam is spam is spam. i didnt ask for information about this party, yet they still sent it to me. thats spam.

Sir_K · #16 (**permalink**) Sep 20, 04

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Originally Posted by meth0dical

^all i see is blah blah blah
spam is spam is spam. i didnt ask for information about this party, yet they still sent it to me. thats spam.

What if you received a message that put you on the guestlist for a party/club that you wanted to pay to get into before you received the message.

Would that be spam to delete just out of principle, then you would pay to get into the club/party, or would you respond and save your money?

meth0dical · #17 (**permalink**) Sep 20, 04

if im interested in a company's party/clubnight i'll sign up for their mailing list. otherwise i dont want their spam.

meth0dical · #18 (**permalink**) Sep 20, 04

plus they didnt send me a guestlist invitation, they spammed me with party info.

Sir_K · #19 (**permalink**) Sep 20, 04

It was a rhetorical question. I'll rephrase it.

You are planning on going to a party or clubnight, the ticket cost is $20.00 at the door, or $15.00 in advance at Whitebird. You are planning on going to the Whitebird tomorrow because you know they still have tickets in stock to buy a ticket. Then you receive an unsolicited e-mail from the promoter, which was obviously sent out to a select list of people (or they wouldnt be selling any tickets and would be losing money), offering that if you respond to the email now, you will be guestlisted for free. For the purposes of this rhetorical question, you know that the offer is valid.

Would you

a) Delete the email out of principle because it is spam, and delete it, then go to the record store the next day and buy the $15.00 ticket as planned or;

b) Respond to the message and get your free guestlist addition.

meth0dical · #20 (**permalink**) Sep 20, 04

thats not the point.
i've stated my point a couple times now.

Sir_K · #21 (**permalink**) Sep 20, 04

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Originally Posted by meth0dical

thats not the point.
i've stated my point a couple times now.

You made your point already. What is your answer to the rhetorical question?

Séguin · #22 (**permalink**) Sep 20, 04

There fucking at it again!?!

meth0dical · #23 (**permalink**) Sep 20, 04

it doesnt matter what my answer to the rhetorical question is because thats not the situation at hand. plus rhetorical questions are used to produce effect, not to obtain an answer.

**sNyx** · #24 (**permalink**) Sep 20, 04

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Originally Posted by automatic

yeah, or maybe your email address is in your fnk profile and they took it from there donkey chops!!! rule of thumb, if you're signing up for a forum-type website where you have to give your email address to get verified you have to make up a fake hotmail account with a really outrageous name like [email protected] or [email protected] and use that to sign up, then abandon that account forever. it takes like 5 minutes, and anyone that you want to talk to you can give them the real one in a pm....

Way too extreme! You don't need to do anything of the sort! There is an option that removes your email from being publicly viewed. When you enter your msn email you then make your address open to the public. Bots, spiders, and people with nothing better to do are then free to copy your address and throw it into their mailing list. Excuse me, 'free' might not be the right word. ;) aaaanyway, there is many ways they could have gotten your email aside from here on Fnk. you send much joke emails around between friends?

Séguin · #25 (**permalink**) Sep 20, 04

Snyx: I think they actualy do grab them off here. I was spamed a while back for IMF. I never go to their site, or anything. The only possible way they could have goeen it was from here.

Dosen't matter though. I blocked them.