Sheesh, I just posted this evening about the difficulty of quitting
smoking, and already I getting email spam about it! I NEVER had
this particular spam before.

OK, who's the mole?

Annette



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"Annette" <acianthus@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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account. I got the same thing about low-carb diets as soon as I put it in my
sig, so I don`t bother with the sig now. I regularly get spam from other
diet programs, because they have wrongly assumed that I low-carb to lose
weight, but I am severely UNDERweight, and low-carbing to control bg. You
gotta laugh, else you`d cry.

Al.

Hmmm, I better check my spam email and see if I got one too. :-)

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Annette wrote in message ...

"Annette" <acianthus@bigpond.com> wrote:

No mole, just scum-sucking bottom-feeding cousin-marrying dog-kicking
thieves that harvest addresses anywhere they can, including bombing ISP's
servers with all possible combinations in a "dictionary attack."

And yes, that _was_ the polite version!

I can be very superior about this one because somehow I never started
smoking. Addictive as I am, that's dumb luck more than anything.
Food, now...

There's help out there, but nothing is easy.... my best thoughts are with
you.


Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at www.albany.net/~gwoods
Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1200' elevation. NY WO G

Annette wrote:
You have to dedicate yourself to quiting no matter how many
times you have to quit. It took me about 6 months to quit for
good, I have now been smoke free for 23 years. BJ

"Gary Woods" <gwoods@albany.net> wrote in message
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Hey we all have to have *something* to feel superior about. It helps keep us
from going completely to pieces when we feel so completely INferior about
something (so many other things?) else!

bj

Interesting comment about spam patterns.
I have checked enough medical sources to
understand why I get several prescription drug offers every day. And probably
anyone with a home computer gets home based "business" ads.
But why, oh why, do I get dirty video, penis enlargement and Viagra ads?
75 year old, hetero widow with only a dim memory of (sshhhhh) sex.....
Nan, Type 2 since 1990 or so

Nan Eklund wrote:
No worse than my breast enhancement spams.... :-) BJ

On 16 Sep 2003 18:04:20 GMT, naneklund@aol.com (Nan Eklund) wrote:

Aha!
So it was you!
My wife ("she-who..) is convinced I must have ordered something
obscene because she was looking over my shoulder this morning when the
"Do you need a giant ..." message appeared before I bounced it on
mailwasher.
After all the video and viagra etc ads recently.
Especially after she saw I was getting messages from strange women.
And the less I say about "dim memories" the better - she might read
this too.
Seriously, I suspect that by putting some specific words in your
message you have caught the attention of a "collector" somewhere and
the spam will increase.

Cheers Alan, T2, Oz

I am up to about 20 junk-emails a day in my posted in box , every day
it is a bogus MS patch too , pop-ups galore now starting today. I
think i will just abandon it soon . Dont feel bad , no way to bounce
it back , tim


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Are you trying to say you don't like them? LOL

The bit about "the mole" was a sort of joke. I was just amazed at
how fast they got onto it. Unreal.

Annette



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Not me, but if I can help with moral support, holler. I quit, cold
turkey, three years ago next February, after smoking 2 packs a day for
over 30 years.

Remember, it's not your will power that gives you trouble, it's your
"won't" power.

Find the real, true to your own heart, reason for quitting and clutch it
like a life saver ring and don't let go. No one can make you go back but
yourself and you're stronger than that.

Budd

Annette wrote:

There should be stiff laws against that crooked tactic , it is akin to
changing your telephone service carrier without ones permission .

I never open stupid spam anyway .

tim

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Annette wrote:


You can get your Spam already smoked. LOL
http://www.spam.com/sp/sp_sm.htm

Larry

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 19:59:01 +1000, "Annette" <acianthus@bigpond.com>
wrote:

Hi Annette. I think that refers to the "Moldovan Scam" and similar
scams. Despite my lack of computer nous I've been on the net since
Netscape and Explorer didn't have numbers and I remember that one.
See http://www.xent.com/FoRK-archive/winter96/0437.html from 1997.
One reason they got away with it for a while was that it operated when
you clicked on a porn site and many guys didn't want to admit to their
spouse or employers that they had done that.
Many of the scammed got some of their money back (about US$2.5M I
think) but most didn't - they certainly didn't get anything from the
Moldovans.

Cheers Alan