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Re: Nym Servers



At 8:45 AM -0700 5/28/97, Ray Arachelian wrote:
>On Wed, 28 May 1997, Anonymous wrote:
>
>> However, the prices have changed since I brought up the idea
>> a month ago.  At the time, they had auto-responders with POP mail -
>> - - $50/2yrs POP+autoresponder, or $39 one-time for a mail forwarder.
>> Now, however, they offer autoresponders for 3/$99 for three years,
>> with no mention of POP mail or forwarding - I don't know if they've
>> dropped the service (in favor of web hosting at $25/month),
>> or if it's still there and just not advertised.  (Of course,
>> there's still the moral dilemma that even $99 is $99 in Spamford's
>>pocket :-)
>
>Not to mention the fact that this bitch will grab any email addresses
>(including your own) that pass through those accounts and use them for his
>own spamming purposes.  Don't do it, it's not worth it, not just for the
>money going to a shit eating weasel, but for the principle of the thing -
>you'd cause the spamming of everyone using it or communicating with it.
>
>If you get a web site with them, they'd grab all the email addresses from
>the surfers' browsers.  Hell, you might as well get an account on
>nsa.gov while you're at it.

At least nsa.gov won't spam the addresses they've grabbed.


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