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Private Message spamming
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17 May 2007 Thu 11:04 pm |
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OK, if you say so. You're far more experienced than me 
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17 May 2007 Thu 11:10 pm |
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Quoting mltm: Quoting Trudy: Quoting mltm: I still think that the messages who are supposed to know someone are not always spam. If Someone look at your pic and decides to message you or just would like to know you and send you a message, he is not spamming. |
You don't consider a message with only 'hi, how are you?' - no name, no personal information, no explanation why - as spam? |
So, you wouldn't consider it a spam if he added his personal details?  |
Well, the last week I got 3 identical messages (hi, how are you) from the same member. Yes, that is spam to me. Harassing? No, just unwanted. And if someone not even take time to look for my name, tell his/her own name and say why they want contact with me, I will keep reporting this as spam. And they can't look at a picture thinking I'm so nice - there is no picture of me since months on this site.
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17 May 2007 Thu 11:45 pm |
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Quoting Trudy:
Well, the last week I got 3 identical messages (hi, how are you) from the same member. Yes, that is spam to me. Harassing? No, just unwanted. And if someone not even take time to look for my name, tell his/her own name and say why they want contact with me, I will keep reporting this as spam. And they can't look at a picture thinking I'm so nice - there is no picture of me since months on this site. |
In your case, I agree it's spam.
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18 May 2007 Fri 04:02 am |
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Trudy is right this time, just imagine the same situation in reality. Proper introducing means at least something like: "Hi, I am XY, sorry for interrupting you, but I would like to get to know you, if you don't mind of course." But imagine you are sitting in a bar and a guy is approaching with "hi, how are you?", you will turn your back ("mark him as a spam"), won't you? And if he repeated that three times, you would probably call the bodyguard or a waiter to warn him ("dear admin, this member is permanently bothering me"). In fact, I would prefer to slap such a guy. Each time I get "Hi, how are you?" message, I feel as someone whistled after me on the street and shouted: "Hey, babe, how are you?"
And about their efforts to see our pics - once I got "Wow, what a sexy pic" message, and I felt very insulted because on that pic, behind me, there was my younger son - OK, half of my younger son, but it he had looked better - or had looked at all - he would see I'm a mother. (Though I wonder would it stop him.)
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18 May 2007 Fri 04:35 am |
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Quoting duda: Trudy is right this time, |
That was a bit patronizing, don't you think? 
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29 Jun 2007 Fri 12:22 am |
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It is rather amusing how spammers are deleted one day and are back the same day, quite ingeniously with the same nickname plus a number! 
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29 Jun 2007 Fri 12:53 am |
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And I thought I was being bored here..
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29 Jun 2007 Fri 02:23 am |
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Quoting libralady: It is rather amusing how spammers are deleted one day and are back the same day, quite ingeniously with the same nickname plus a number! |
they are quite the imaginative bunch... 
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30 Jun 2007 Sat 04:39 pm |
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Quoting libralady: It is rather amusing how spammers are deleted one day and are back the same day, quite ingeniously with the same nickname plus a number! |
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09 Jul 2007 Mon 01:28 pm |
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I noticed that someone has been deleted for "stalking". Now this is a new one on me, can anyone explain exactly how you stalk someone on the internet?
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09 Jul 2007 Mon 01:32 pm |
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Quoting libralady: I noticed that someone has been deleted for "stalking". Now this is a new one on me, can anyone explain exactly how you stalk someone on the internet? |
I would imagine "stalking" would consist of persistently sending unwanted PMs (even if you know that person), following their every move on threads and commenting, etc.
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