[Gllug] Spam

Ben Fitzgerald ben_m_f at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Oct 14 10:58:24 UTC 2005


On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 11:49:00AM +0100, Joel Bernstein wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 11:45:59AM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> > 
> > On 14/10/2005, "Richard Jones" <rich at annexia.org> wrote:
> > 
> > >This is clearly illegal under the Privacy and Electronic
> > >Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.  You should find out
> > >which companies are doing this and complain to the Information
> > >Commissioner.
> > 
> > Ticketmaster, Seetickets, every other ticket extortionist under the sun.
> 
> I had a similar problem, and the explanation I had was that the contract
> you have is with the event promoter/venue and not with the ticket
> extortionists. So they're allowed [and AFAIK required by the promoters]
> to pass your details on to the event and promotion companies. If you're
> being spammed by one of those there's less you can do :/

For many email conversations that will only require a short-lived exchange
I've stated to use mailexpire.com. They provide you with a mail alias
under their domain that lives for ## hours/days as you choose. This
requires that you trust them, of course. I've found it quick and useful.
Especially for sites that demand registration to view content, though
bugmenot is making this rarer :-)

cheers,

ben.

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