To solve #1 just keep a dummy free email account used solely for the purpose of verifying registration to websites such as slashdot. Thus your real email address never gets used or posted and finding the legit activation request emails sent by these emails wouldn't be terribly difficult to find even amongst an onslaught of spam.
To paraphrase the great George Carlin in his rant on airport security: All of these measures exist for one thing - so that overprivelaged white people get the feeling and illusion of safety. People don't mind giving up a little bit of privacy and personal information for the illusion of feeling safe.
Nothing can be made perfectly safe, but the idea sounds good, and therefore people aren't resisting these intrusions into their personal lives and all of the information around it.
It's probably way too early to know anything about this, but does anyone have any information regarding Valve, Team Fortress Software, or a third party planning on creating another team fortress mod for Half Life2?
What really pains me here is that Scott Richter sounds like a great entreprenurial mind (ie: the iraqi deck of cards). Everything he worked on up until the Big* email businesses were very ingenious. And that's not to say that the business idea behind his email spamming is bad at all. It's just really unfortunate that someone with that strong of a grasp on marketing and retail resorts to marketing his products through such an unapproved and frowned upon method.
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So does this explain why more than half the spam that makes it through to my inbox looks like an illiterate a0l script kiddy wrote it?
To solve #1 just keep a dummy free email account used solely for the purpose of verifying registration to websites such as slashdot. Thus your real email address never gets used or posted and finding the legit activation request emails sent by these emails wouldn't be terribly difficult to find even amongst an onslaught of spam.
To paraphrase the great George Carlin in his rant on airport security: All of these measures exist for one thing - so that overprivelaged white people get the feeling and illusion of safety. People don't mind giving up a little bit of privacy and personal information for the illusion of feeling safe. Nothing can be made perfectly safe, but the idea sounds good, and therefore people aren't resisting these intrusions into their personal lives and all of the information around it.
It's probably way too early to know anything about this, but does anyone have any information regarding Valve, Team Fortress Software, or a third party planning on creating another team fortress mod for Half Life2?
What really pains me here is that Scott Richter sounds like a great entreprenurial mind (ie: the iraqi deck of cards). Everything he worked on up until the Big* email businesses were very ingenious. And that's not to say that the business idea behind his email spamming is bad at all. It's just really unfortunate that someone with that strong of a grasp on marketing and retail resorts to marketing his products through such an unapproved and frowned upon method.