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Poser - OFFICIAL F.A.Q (Last Updated: 2025 Jan 11 12:18 am)
Your rights are whatever were stated in the "privacy policy" of the site you supplied your Email to. No legal protections. If you and the site owner reside in the same political sphere (country or state), you could attempt civil recourse (sue them) but you'd have to prove they broke an agreement, and you suffered loss as a result. It's also possible a spammer cracked them and/or "spoofed" their name in an Email "from" field. Main thing is to read the Privacy terms at any site you give your Email to, or get a disposable Email to use for such sites you have any reservations for.
It was actually not that tacky... and he said that it would be a one-time mailing (not like those penis-enlargement ads which come in by the truckload or the invester stock tip newsletter which is just about impossible to avoid or the ad I got today advertising face shots of "young girls" or the one I got last night showing pictures of women with a dildo). Mailing unrelated information isn't something we want to encourage, but a quick delete and life goes on. Carolly
I got an email back from the site saying they will investigate it and that it was not intentional. we'll see. I do not take a passive stance on spam, a quick delete is not protection. As far as I'm concerned when I sign up for a site on a topic and get something unrelated then it's tacky. I've been email bombed, signed up for thousands of things I didn't sign up for and almost lost my email account due to spam and violations, sorry, it's a touchy subject to me.
MC, did they say it was NOT sent from their site?? I got the impression, the ad was. If it wasnt, then some serious violations have been going on. Previous to this I thought the ad ill-advised and a wrongheaded use of a mailing list. I didnt feel violated exactly, just ticked off. If I give my address to someone, I expect professional behavior from that site, this was amateurish. Goodwill is business is priceless and, especially on the web, nothing should tarnish it. Why all this ranting? I don't want Renderosity to get the same ideas. Emily
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Heres one more weapon in the spam wars. You can set up a free account with despammed to use on websites. Their service filters any resulting spam and forwards the rest to your regular email address. I've just started using it so I don't know how well it works. Ultimately, the best solution to spam is pressing "America's only native criminal class," aka congress to pass some real anti-spam legislation."Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken
Ultimately, the best solution to spam is pressing "America's only native criminal class," aka congress to pass some real anti-spam legislation. The best way to do that is to find out their e-mail addresses and get them on some spammer lists. Make them go through some of the stuff we go through and I think we'll see results. (Missed that $100,000 pledge contribution offer because it got mixed in with all the penis enlargement e-mails? Maybe spam is a problem, after all.) ;-)
Actually, worst part is - most are generated with stolen or non existant email accounts (is easy to program wrong return address) and if you do a remove, they give it to another phoney address with exact same page. I actually got one junk email [5x a day minimum from different phoney addresses to all my domain email addresses] that said I had to call them long distance during their working hours to be removed from their email list. Since I have unlimited long distance on my fax machine.... I made an all black with white lettering fax telling them (in impolite terms) to take off my Whole Domain from their list and after sending the fax 6 or 7 times and using all their fax ink, they quit sending stuff to my domain. Know it is not nice but neither are they!
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I received a email from someone claiming to be from another poser store, the information in the email was an advertisement for a new website having nothing to do with art or poser or graphics at all. Now I consider spam a violation and guard my personal contact info pretty well am I completely out of line to be offended at this person and their poser site??? Is this a common practise? I know a lost of sites that I have signed up with say specifically that they do not sell or give out members contact info, but what about the site I sign up with that then uses THAT list of members to spam and email to promote their new unrelated site? I'm completely mad about this practise. I am deliberately not mentioning the name or persons involved in this. I have emailed the site and told them to discontinue my membership with that site, however, is it right for me to yell out to the world and inform others of the practise and use the name of the place? what are MY rights. I feel so violated right now.