>> And, of course, this may well have just been a message saying  "You have
>>an inactive account -  we will be deleting it soon unless you contact us"

The risk is not that they will send too many emails for their business; the
risk is that they sell your email address to spammers.  Then you get a lot
of email from unrecognized sources.

--BobG


-----Original Message-----
From: pic microcontroller discussion list [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On
Behalf Of Cole Christopher J
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 8:57 AM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [EE]: Anyone dealt with Custom PCB?

>
> [referring to 4pcb.com]
> > I did sign up -- no SPAM yet,
>
> Just wait.  I knew I did look at their prices some time back,
> so I checked
> my records.  I don't know when I signed up as a "member", but
> fortunately I
> did this using an email alias I made up just for them.  (I do
> this a lot for
> various on line merchants.  One of the benefits of running
> your own email
> server).  That email address is now disabled, with a comment
> that it was
> spammed on 13 July 2001.

And, of course, this may well have just been a message saying "You have an
inactive account - we will be deleting it soon unless you contact us"

Innocent until proven guilty, IMHO.

Chris.

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