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Dutch Court: Bothered by SPAM? Get A New Email Address

Posted by timothy on from the now-slap-yourself-with-this-shovel dept.

Brenno de Winter writes: "The earlier mentioned ruling on XS4ALL has been analyzed by Linux Journal in this article. The ruling states that it's easy to change e-mail addresses, so don't worry about SPAM too much. Yeah right! RFC's don't apply to the Direct Marketeers since they were not involved in the standarization. Neither in our consitution, btw .."

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  1. How often would we need to change addresses? by leastsquares · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A couple of months ago I signed up for a Road-runner cable connection. At the time I hadn't finished putting my new PC together so I didn't connect for about the first 4 days. Guess what I saw when I did check my road-runner POP account for the first time... ...that's right, two emails offering me the chance of earning a degree, now, based on work-experience. Hmmm.

    Needless to say, I've never have, nor will, use that email address. I dread to think how much junk has collected in that inbox so far.