Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 23:36:47 +0100 From: "Andre Goeree" <abgoeree@uwnet.nl> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SPAM was: (OT: [REJECTED MAIL]????????) Message-ID: <20010222233647.B17500@mandark.attica.home> In-Reply-To: <xzpsnl6lryp.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 03:20:30PM %2B0100 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> <xzpsnl6lryp.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 03:20:30PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > "Andre Goeree" <abgoeree@uwnet.nl> 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
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