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Spamblocker (OT)
As you all know, I've had this problem of a gif file being attached to my
posts since I installed a free spamblocker. Anyone who reads posts via NIN will not have seen mine recently as it blocks any attachments, they are not allowed. I thought I would get in touch with them and explain the difficulty it was causing on the newsgroup and whether they had considered that some newsreaders don't allow attachments. I had this reply: Dear Madam, Thank you for your interest in our product. Adding a promotional signature to the bottom of an email is standard practice among free email based services. SpamBlockerUtility is offered initially as a free service and adds a promotional signature to your email. The promotional signature aims to inform recipients of our special email services and how they too can take advantage of our value added service. If you wish to subscribe to the paid service, which is a version without the promotional signature, please click on the following link- https://secure.hotbar.com/Secure/Fas...illingform.asp If you have additional questions do not hesitate to contact us again. Have a nice day. (When replying, please do not change the subject , as it contains your support call ID and do not remove the message contents) Customer Support spamblockerutility.com _______________ They just *did* not see the irony of being a spamblocker service and forcing me to sent out spam!!! The program was surprisingly difficult to uninstall. I uninstalled it, was told the uninstall was successful but the next day, bless your life, it was still there. So then I had no desktop icon to get it back..but its evil toolbar was still there and had replaced my normal one :-( I had to ponder about how to do this, but I eventually sussed it. It took two more uninstalls to get rid of it. It's a pity. It's a very effective spam control program, although I only had it a few days it removed spam and never made a mistake in removing family/friends. Maybe they have to tune it up a bit. First thing: stop attaching gif files..! Tweed |
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Spamblocker (OT)
On Sun, 21 May 2006 22:00:00 +0100, "Christina Websell"
wrote: As you all know, I've had this problem of a gif file being attached to my posts since I installed a free spamblocker. Anyone who reads posts via NIN will not have seen mine recently as it blocks any attachments, they are not allowed. I thought I would get in touch with them and explain the difficulty it was causing on the newsgroup and whether they had considered that some newsreaders don't allow attachments. I had this reply: Have you considered Thunderbird for mail and/or usenet? It's free, open source, backed by the Mozilla group, and has a built-in junk filter ... and *no* appended anything you don't tell it to append - it does what you tell it to and not much else: there are no major surprises. -- T.E.D. ) |
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Christina Websell wrote:
As you all know, I've had this problem of a gif file being attached to my posts since I installed a free spamblocker. Anyone who reads posts via NIN will not have seen mine recently as it blocks any attachments, they are not allowed. I thought I would get in touch with them and explain the difficulty it was causing on the newsgroup and whether they had considered that some newsreaders don't allow attachments. I had this reply: Dear Madam, Thank you for your interest in our product. Adding a promotional signature to the bottom of an email is standard practice among free email based services. SpamBlockerUtility is offered initially as a free service and adds a promotional signature to your email. The promotional signature aims to inform recipients of our special email services and how they too can take advantage of our value added service. If you wish to subscribe to the paid service, which is a version without the promotional signature, please click on the following link- https://secure.hotbar.com/Secure/Fas...illingform.asp If you have additional questions do not hesitate to contact us again. Have a nice day. (When replying, please do not change the subject , as it contains your support call ID and do not remove the message contents) Customer Support spamblockerutility.com _______________ They just *did* not see the irony of being a spamblocker service and forcing me to sent out spam!!! The program was surprisingly difficult to uninstall. I uninstalled it, was told the uninstall was successful but the next day, bless your life, it was still there. So then I had no desktop icon to get it back..but its evil toolbar was still there and had replaced my normal one :-( I had to ponder about how to do this, but I eventually sussed it. It took two more uninstalls to get rid of it. It's a pity. It's a very effective spam control program, although I only had it a few days it removed spam and never made a mistake in removing family/friends. Maybe they have to tune it up a bit. First thing: stop attaching gif files..! Tweed I use MailWasher, I believe it was Bev that originally recomended it, it was written by a cat lover from New Zealand http://www.mailwasher.net/download.php -- Adrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk |
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