Unactive Member

[Electronic Punk]

It used to bother me but you just learn to accept there are some things that are under your control that you just can't control.

I'll send out a big email one day and half of them will tell me to **** off and other half will try typing UNSUBSCRIBE even though I clearly state in all of my emails this is not a newsletter, your getting this message as a member of OSNN. They never read it

 

[Son Goku]

Oh, a message with unsubscribe in the subject line would be nothing. Just wait till you get the messages sent through www.spamcop.net saying your a spammer. Then you get a group of anti-spammers on your case, and have to explain things

Meh, I don't see why this would be an issue. I doubt a user acount takes up that much of the server's HDD...

 

[Electronic Punk]

Amusingly I would blacklist such emails and delete them using Mailwasher.

X-istence loves it when I mail over 39,322 people.
Might prune out those people who never activated their account and delete some banned users now actually.

 

[ming]

I think the best solution is to split the Members list into two categories... Active Members and Inactive Members. That way those who browse the member list will quickly see who are still currently active and who are inactive.

 

[bush dogg]

I'll send out a big email one day and half of them will tell me to **** off

Hey EP have an Idea just add a line to the forum rules that states “IF you tell EP to **** off your E Mail will be posted on the site for 1 week” for all to abuse.

 

[Electronic Punk]

nah, thats jut everyone else -- I love it.

 

[LordOfLA]

heh,

thinking of spamcop. I had a hilarious case at work the other day.

Forwarded a spamcop rerport to a client, who later got back to us and said it was the guy himself had reported himself as a spammer

 

[Electronic Punk]

I did that in World of Wacraft, said my name was destroying the feel of the epic landscape and taking away my immerision into the game.

They wouldn't change it.

 

[Son Goku]

heh,

thinking of spamcop. I had a hilarious case at work the other day.

Forwarded a spamcop rerport to a client, who later got back to us and said it was the guy himself had reported himself as a spammer

rofl, watch his email prog CCed a copy of his emails to him, so he thought spam That's where a few well placed jokes end up circulating around the office :laugh:

Oh, and if we take bush dogg's suggestion, can we try to get Mr. Ralsky to tell EP to f- off? That dude deserves to be spammed

http://www.detnews.com/2005/technology/0510/16/B01-349738.htm

Michigan's unapologetic king of bulk e-mail is in trouble again. This time, an FBI raid has closed what some consider one of the world's largest houses of spam.

Warrants unsealed last week revealed that agents in September seized computers, laptops, financial records and disks from the 8,000-square-foot home of Alan M. Ralsky. The $750,000 West Bloomfield mini-mansion was built off profits from the 100 million electronic offers for everything from Botox to mortgages that Ralsky sends every day.

FBI agents even took a copy of a 2002 Detroit News story that called Ralsky the "poster boy for spam."

I guess this is newer then when the Slashdot community published his email, home address (to his then mansion being built), and unlisted phone number, which sent him in a tiff about receiving a lil payback to all the spam he had been sending for like a decade or so :laugh:

Yeah, lets see if we can get him to sign up and then say this, so he can get his email published again, per bush dogg's suggestion ROFL

 

[omg its nlm]

I am now OSNN active and it feels so good.....

 

[Mastershakes]

Voicing opinions is frowned upon, and violates forum guidelines

I violate it everyday with glee.

 

[Mastershakes]

It's sad that the FBI has discovered SPAM filters. Server side that is.

 

[madmatt]

What is an "unactive" member? *wink*

 

[muzikool]

What is an "unactive" member? *wink*

I was waiting for someone to point that out.

 

[Mastershakes]

It's American for inactive.

 

[muzikool]

I'm pretty sure that two Americans brought up the fact that it was mistyped.

 

[madmatt]

I was just curious. =)

 

[Son Goku]

It's American for inactive.

Actually, I'm an American, and one who grew up in the states, and the word useage of unactive "feels" akward to me. Doesn't seem proper English for this American... However, whatever floats someone's boat

 

[GEN3RIC]

What is an "unactive" member? *wink*

Hes from Singapore.. woudlnt expect him to get that right.

 

[bobsalot]

hey, i didnt post for about 4 months. i would have hated it if my account was deleted. i agree with not deleting accounts.