Getting rid of TargitMail? Preventing spam in Deja.com
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print at the end indicates that it's for all users of Bigmailbox.com,
the email provider of deja.com.
However: the unsubscription procedure is rather tricky. Namely, you
have to provide them with both your deja.com username and password.
This seems to me as a very fine way to snatch the accounts.
Does anybody else have the same problem (wishing to unsubscribe, yet
not wanting to reveal their data to an unknown entity)? How to deal
with it?
Second: when posting to usenet from e.g. Outlook Express, one can
scramble their email like somethi...@REMOVEdomain.com, so they
won't be getting any SPAM to that address. How to do something like
that when posting from deja.com account directly??
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Before you buy.
Richard Price
looks too much like the well-known bogus "send a message to
spa...@his.evil.lair.com to remove" which you get at the bottom of
many unsolicited emails.
Instead I have written directly to sup...@bigmailbox.com pointing out
that I have *not* agreed to receive this information when I "signed up
with BigMailbox.com" as they put it, and I don't expect to receive any
more of it. They wrote back telling me "Your email address has been
removed" (from somewhere it shouldn't have been in the first place) and
I didn't receive any more, for about a month. Then it happened again,
and I complained the same way again, and got a longer version of the
same reply:
"BigMailBox has entered into a partnership with TargitMail for the
delivery of relevant advertisements to users within the BigMailBox
network. The domain that you have a free email account with uses our
email system. Your email address has been unsubscribed. Thank you."
I have no idea whether this will have really worked this time, but if
it didn't I should be forced to conclude that BigMailBox is itself a
bogus email service provider set up as a front for a spam generating
enterprise. And in that case, I would also presume that Deja's
financial state is so poor that it was forced to choose to switch from
its previous respectable email provider to a partnership with the
devil. Let's hope the 'unsubscription' does work and that such
conclusions would be groundless.
On your other question: no, with Deja you only have a choice of your my-
deja address and the address from which you originally subscribed. But
of course one answer to both questions would be to abandon your my-deja
email account as a 'spam-dump', i.e. never read it at all.
Richard Price
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