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[Richard B. Gilbert]

Peter Weaver wrote:
>> ...
>> I don't know if everyone feels this way but I don't consider E-mail from
>> a firm that I do business with to be "spam".  In general, any mail from
>> these firms come with an addendum telling me how to unsubscribe.
>>
>> Mail from strangers trying to sell me something is spam and most
>> unwelcome.  I have my own primitive filters that catch most of the worst
>> of what slips through ComCast's filters.
> 
> If I did not specifically sign up for a newsletter then it is spam. As
> I wrote, I have 282 email addresses that are forwarded to real
> accounts. If each company I gave an address to decided to sign me up
> for a weekly or even a monthly newsletter then that would be a lot of
> mail that I just do not want.
> 
> About 6 months bought a lot of coffee K-Cups from a company named
> Tweed and Hickory. When I placed the order I specifically wrote that
> the email address was for the purpose of processing the order and the
> address was not signing up for any newsletters or promotions. For
> about 5 months they honoured that request and my wife and I were
> preparing another order. Then they started blasting out a newsletter
> using a spammer called constantcontact.com. They send out anywhere
> from 3 to 15 emails a week with special promotions, one day I received
> 7 identical emails within 45 minutes thanking me for signing up for
> their newsletter. That is spam. Even if it was just one newsletter
> then that one newsletter would have been spam. I'm not buying any more
> coffee from Tweed and Hickory.
> 
> The latest email I received to the address I gave to Mindq/Encompass
> was (I modified the from address and replaced some of the letters in
> the .HTML file itself);
> 
>    Subject: fzb john
>    From: Keri Holgate <abcxx at yahoo.com>
>    Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2010 22:16:05 -0000
>    Customer-Id: 106744
>    Abuse: abuse at ispfr.net
> 
> 
>    http://ujovequqi.the-best-free-web-hosting.com/babcxx.html
> 
> Clearly someone at Mindq and/or Encompass did not keep my email
> address secure.
> 

Perhaps sending snail mail to the president of the company, explaining 
your grievance, will do some good.  Be polite, and keep it brief.  Ask 
to be *permanently* removed from their electronic mailing lists!

It may do some good.  I don't see how it could make matters much worse.