From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 22 15: 3:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from daffy.uwnet.nl (ns.isd-holland.nl [195.7.130.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B29F37B401 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:03:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abgoeree@uwnet.nl) Received: from dyn.dailup.c227140174.isd.to (dyn.dailup.c227140174.isd.to [213.227.140.174]) by daffy.uwnet.nl (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f1MN3DT13363 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 00:03:13 +0100 Received: (qmail 17581 invoked by uid 1000); 22 Feb 2001 22:36:47 -0000 From: "Andre Goeree" Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 23:36:47 +0100 To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SPAM was: (OT: [REJECTED MAIL]????????) Message-ID: <20010222233647.B17500@mandark.attica.home> Reply-To: abgoeree@uwnet.nl References: <20010220230057.A57762@mandark.attica.home> <14994.61220.340488.445773@guru.mired.org> <20010221111149.D929@mandark.attica.home> <14996.17748.832610.157775@guru.mired.org> <20010222104104.A36094@mandark.attica.home> <20010222072512.C30602@diskfarm.firehouse.net> <20010222140605.A14353@mandark.attica.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from des@ofug.org on Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 03:20:30PM +0100 X-Sender: abgoeree@uwnet.nl Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 03:20:30PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > "Andre Goeree" writes: > > Oh yeah, i forgot about that, they already found out i have > > SMS on my mobile phone, and what do you know, it gets spammed! > > *Very* annoying because this stupid phone rings every time > > it gets a message and i don't know how to switch it off :-( > > Weird. Here in .no there has been a lot of press about kids getting > spam for porn hotlines and web sites sent to their cell phones, but > I've never gotten a singe piece of SMS spam in all the years I've had > an SMS-capable GSM phone. Neither have I ever heard a first-hand > report of SMS spam - I'm beginning to think it's a myth... > Well, it's Unsollicited/Unwanted, it's Commercial, it's just not Email, but i guess we could call it SPAM. About every week i get an SMS from my cell-phone supplier about their latest & greatest and if i please want to open an bank account or whatever that's absolutely not connected to cell-phones. Is this (some sort of) SPAM or what? Luckily i never cared to "register" the phone otherwise they would probably send it to my snailmail too. -- Andre. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message