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Win an AIBO
Jon Frisby let me know that Everyone.net is running a contest right now. The prize? An AIBO, along with performance pak is yours if you are the lucky winner. The model is the ERS-111. To register, you sign up for a membership at Everyone.net, apparently.
Wait.. I have to enter my own e-mail adresss, and the more other e-mail adresses I submit, the better my chances of winning? So they want to collect e-mail adresses? What for? I can see only one purpose, and it's not legitimate.. It's called SPAM.
yech!
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I really want that AIBO, and I've got a couple of places I could whip up a BUNCH of temporary spam collecting e-mail addresses at. But is it worth the effort? In the time it would take me to set it all up, filter it for a winning message and remove the accounts I could easily make more than value of an AIBO by using the same skills doing some extra consulting here locally! Besides, with them basically encouraging such behaviour by giving links other places that give free e-mail addresses is asking for it.
This is little more than a fancy web-based chain letter if you think about it! I gave it one address just so I could track how much SPAM it sends. I'm sickly curious that way.
You know throwing the
wondering if should have posted this anonmyously now that it's got me scared of my mailbox......
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Well, I tried to enter, but it came back with a message saying that the email address and phone number must be valid. It's too bad they didn't explain what was wrong, though. My phone number was in standard notation, and my email address was perfectly valid.
I imagine they don't like that my email address has a + in it, as I've had problems with this before, but according to RFC 822, this is legal: The username may contain any CHAR (ascii characters 0-127 in decimal), EXCEPT control characters (0-31), space, and special characters, which must be quoted.
Special characters are: ( ) < > @ , ; : \ " . [ ]
Slashdot! The ads aren't just at the top of the page anymore.
Slashdot, your web promotion headquarters. Let us Slashdot you *today*!
Wallowing in mediocrity? The Slashdot Plan(tm) allows you to promote your services for free, so long as you give away one of the many `geek prizes' manufactured by our advertisers.
Seriously. Is this Slashdot material? Sheesh.
Napster-to-go says "Fill and refill your compatible MP3 player", which is a lie. It's not MP3. It's WMA with DRM.
I created a hotmail account and used it to register for the contest. So far I haven't received any spam on the account, but I'll be sure to post an update in a couple of days. In the mean time, feel free to register or list the following hotmail account as a friend for the Aibo contest: everyonenettest@hotmail.com
As I have noticed with all other toys/gadgets with electric motors and such, they all have one thing in common: the sound of a 1950's vacuum cleaner with a dying motor. Now, has Sony made any technological breakthroughs in noise reduction? This is a serious question, but if they have not, I think I would prefer to have a root canal than have one of these things around.
like a free dinner from the Warsaw Marriott.
Or a free pair of Adistar Wrestling shoes.
Or a free personal electronic caddy
Or a free set of shafts (you never know when yours will break, wink wink, nudge nudge)
Or a free WebTV (Ok, so that one's not so good)
Or a free Wave keyboard
Hmmm. I take it back. An AIBO is best after all.
"If one is really a superior person, the fact is likely to leak out without too much assistance" -- John Andrew Holmes
Please, people, this isn't about collecting addresses for spam. It's a simple promotion, a web promotion no less, and its purpose is to get people acquainted with everyone.net. You did hear about their website before right? No? Well you have now. That's exactly the point. While you're there, they'll try to convince you why you should go with them instead of MS's hotmail.com. Again, that's the whole point.
"If one is really a superior person, the fact is likely to leak out without too much assistance" -- John Andrew Holmes
Usually, when you send a message to someone through these type of web forms... it will have text before and after your input..... like:
"Hi, your friend from blah blah blah would like you to come to blah blah... here is their message:"(message follows) but, this doesn't. Oh well.
Don't enter this contest at all costs! They'll just spam you to death AND give me less chances to win! Now gimmie your email addresses, I'll make sure they won't be submitted. :)
For some reason I'm reminded of Lazlo Troth, cranking out thousands upon thousands of entry forms with the expectation of winning 32% of the winnings (Including the mobile home.)
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Whether or not you spam (which you're assuring us that you don't, so I'll trust you on this one), I don't think that Slashdot should be running ads for you posed as articles.
With Slashdot as a commercial property (and publicly owned), I think that there needs to be an increase in the quality of the articles. Spelling & grammar errors in posts need to be corrected. Advertisements should be in the form of banners, not in the form of articles. Rumors shouldn't be posted as "news".
Just my rant, though, and I'll probably be flamed/moderated down for it.
I don't usually use my email address, so I entered. And, sure enough, this morning my mailbox has been filled with this worthless crap.
Don't do it, if you value your address.
I'm sorry. What I meant to say was 'please excuse me.'
what came out of my mouth was 'Move or I'll kill you!'
Yes, they're getting tons of free valid email addresses and phone numbers for the demographic of 'people who want a plastic dog' for the price of one plastic robotic dog.
Yes, you will get spammed.
No, you probably wont get the doggie.
But.. What the hell I did it. I already get spam on my hotmail account. I made that account, oh about a month ago, didn't tell anyone and found 2 pieces of spam 10 minutes later. Can we say security problem. Oh, and I did use the enctypted login, though there isn't an encryption option when creating the account. I'm sure there's a low-level hotmail/MSN employee pulling up to work in a Ferrari ala Richard Prior in Superman 3.
I should be telling you not to join in, the less of you the more chances for me, so whatever you do DON'T join in.