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I hate to sound like the big idiot here, but what exactly in the email
you received indicates no-ip.com spammed? It looks to me like you just
have some secret "admirer" who thought you wanted a no-ip.com account,
and no-ip.com emailed you to confirm that you do want the account.
Holy shit! Duck! Did you see that! Those pigs had wings!
Man! Were they ever crusing!
The entire idea (assuming that you weren't being totally
factious - given the absurdity of the idea, I have to allow for even
that possibility) is so rediculous as to set new records. Have you ever
met "some secret admirer who thought..."? Yes, I have. They are ALL
practical jokers who like to fill in your name and address in the
"Cleveland Institute of Electronics" information requests in the back
of matchbook covers. In order words, moronic practical jokers who
are more interesting in having fun by screwing you over than by whether
you are interested in some stupid service. I'm not totally sure which
is worse. The idea that lamers would use that stupid excuse that some
"secret admirer" just thought you were dying for their wares or the
even more stupid idea that they (said lamers) would be so overtly stupid
as to believe any such individual was doing anying more beneficent than
forking you over for shits and giggles. Both (lamers and "secret
admirers") deserve appropriate comphensation. Battonado would be good
for warm ups. Keel hauling (slow) would be definitely on the agenda.
A nice, VERY slow, garrote would finish the job.
If I haven't made my point, this is it... NO ONE. NO BODY!
would be so lame or STUPID as to do something so assinine without
checking with me first. Anyone who did so was NOT someone with my
best interest in mind and certainly not a friend or "secret admirer".
Anyone doing that would be tracked down and made to pay consequences.
That very thing insures that nobody would do such a thing by accident,
honestly thinking I would be interesting in something like that (besides,
I don't associate with people having IQ's less than half their age).
To raise that straw man is a fraud. It doesn't happen. To use
that excuse is to buy into the fraud. If someone SERIOUSLY thought I
was interested in something like that, they would tell me and THEY would
personally send me a message and a URL. No anonymous bullshit. No
adding my name to bullshit spammer lists. NOBODY does that. NOBODY with
half the intelligence that God gave a rock!
And... Yes, I HAVE had assholes pull the "Cleveland Institute
of Electronics" trick on me. That's what infuriates me about this bullshit
and why I know it's all a lie. They paid the price dearly FOR YEARS AFTER!
Vivien
Random disclaimer: Yes, we're a competitor of no-ip.com's... And yes, we
used to send similar emails to people signing up for an account,
although nowadays instead of sending them an initial password we send a
confirm URL instead.
So it appears you wised up...
Yeah, I help run a system with over 100 mailing lists and over
10,000 subscribers to one or more of those mailing lists. You learn.
We learned YEARS ago. No open subscriptions. Confirm everything. We
got tired of half the planet subscribing Rep N. Gingrich to all of our
mailing lists. We may have had really REALLY good information and service,
but I honestly DON'T think he as interested and those 100,000 "secret
admirers" really didn't think they were doing him a favor.
The "secret admirer" thing is so rare it makes the lottery look
like a sure bet. Hell! It makes Schroeder's cat look immortal. It's
an excuse and a fraud. That's all it ever was and that's all it will
ever be.
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Vivien M.
vivienm@dyndns.org
Assistant System Administrator
Dynamic DNS Network Services
http://www.dyndns.org/
Mike
