Who wants spam email?
Sorry for the rant but...
john.fleet@northtyneside.gov.uk
Has kindly sent me an (unsolicited) email telling me: "See the attachment below to find out about an exciting opportunity to
market your business locally on the web free of charge:"
Blah de fucking blah.
And what has the (expletive deleted) done? (And I don't use the term lightly.) He's sent the email out ccing 316 other recipients.
Do you think NTC is going to pay me for the time I have to spend dealing with all the extra spam I'll get from each of the systems among the 316 that has a virus or spyware?
God I hate spam.
God I hate fuckwits with computers.
If you come across somewhere to sign up an email address use the one above.
Not a happy bunny.
UK anti spam laws, as a general rule, don't apply to businesses. Where are good sites where I can forward spam to have domains blacklisted?
Rant over.
john.fleet@northtyneside.gov.uk
Has kindly sent me an (unsolicited) email telling me: "See the attachment below to find out about an exciting opportunity to
market your business locally on the web free of charge:"
Blah de fucking blah.
And what has the (expletive deleted) done? (And I don't use the term lightly.) He's sent the email out ccing 316 other recipients.
Do you think NTC is going to pay me for the time I have to spend dealing with all the extra spam I'll get from each of the systems among the 316 that has a virus or spyware?
God I hate spam.
God I hate fuckwits with computers.
If you come across somewhere to sign up an email address use the one above.
Not a happy bunny.
UK anti spam laws, as a general rule, don't apply to businesses. Where are good sites where I can forward spam to have domains blacklisted?
Rant over.
Post edited by dekh on
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See the attachment below to find out about an exciting opportunity to
market your business locally on the web free of charge:
John Fleet
Town Centres Manager
Development Directorate
North Tyneside Council
Howard House, Saville Street
North Shields NE30 1NT
Tel: 0191 200 5733 Fax: 0191 200 6109
Mobile: 07779 303 805
john.fleet@northtyneside.gov.uk
www.tynetown.co.uk
Unless otherwise stated, opinions, conclusions and other information
expressed in this message are personal, and not those of North Tyneside
Council.
(See attached file: Town Centre Deals email invite.doc)
This email has been scanned for viruses and inappropriate content by Clearswift MIMEsweeper service. North Tyneside Council does not guarantee this email to be free of any viruses. It is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that this message and any attachments are virus free.
__________________________
Note the lack of opt in opt out on the email? Poor, poor practice. I'm waiting for a call back from him but as I phoned at 17:06 and he works for the council, he'd buggered off home.
I hate that my tax money goes on this kinda stuff.
Feel free to use his email, I'd never be able to find those sort of sites. :roll:
Ah well in that case, and as he's a government-type person, reply saying that you'd love to advertise your business on the web free-of-charge... because advertising the services of the women in your employ in the back of seedy magazines can be expensive.
I did my usual p*ss off email but on my 'secret' hotmail i wrote to him pretending i was interested. Once i got a reply back i went into my rant about spam email.
He did write back a polite email saying he wasnt aware of spam laws and used a company in China for the email list (duhhh).
After i did my usual windup about contacting anti-spam agencies in the UK he then went overboard and said hes contacted his solicitor for various reasons, eg me emailing him pretending to be interested etc !
Also told him to get a decent website and to check for typos, its dire.
Hes still going on and on but i've had to block him, his long winded rants are worse than mine believe it or not !
Just said to him IF i wanted to get spam email fair enough but i never asked to be put on the chinese list, its just spam which he just doesnt understand
On which subject, I'd like to apologise to the several thousand people by now who have received spam from my email address. Absolutely nothing to do with me. Apparently this is called 'joe-jobbing'. If anyone ever finds out a way to determine who it is that's using my email address I would dearly love to know.
Blueyonders (Virgin Media) spam filter normally means I see hardly any spam.
Does this mean other ISP's are letting a lot of crap through or are these "hotmail" type accounts your talking about?.
ADJB
Also as it is a genuine email from a genuine email address it passes all the RDNS type lookups.
This is a case of an individual sending bulk email from a legit source. Normally I wouldn't be too bothered but the guy has sent *MY* email address to 316 other email accounts (and vice versa).
http://www.tynetown.co.uk/tcm/
then fill out the first one you find.
leave his email addy and sit back and relish in the thought of 1000,s of Nigerians emailing him about unclaimed millions in storage boxes.
Read this about the legal difference between SPAM and spam.
Skarpo
:-)
It's the smirk and the perv'stache that give him away as being a true spammer ... and a spanner to boot.
PS Go here to leave an official complaint.
I'll be sure to nut him in the face, if I see him out and about when I visit home next year :lol:
You should post one up so we can all have a laugh!
http://www.spamusement.com/
the title is self evident of this