UCLAN wrote in :

bz wrote:

Was it from the vendor that sold you the product? If so, it is probably
'legal spam'.

This seems to be organized by
ebay.

or someone harvested your e-mail address from ebay?

Nothing quite that sinister.

Ebay marketplace vendor "ABC" sells a product. A few days after
receiving the product, consumer gets email from vendor "ABC" saying
"...have we got a idea for you." Methinks "SquareTrade" has a deal
with multiple marketplace vendors on ebay.

So ebay appears to be a spammer supporter. [unless you checked a little
'spam me for free' box when you joined ebay or when you bought from vendor
"ABC".{you should NOT have to UNCHECK any boxes, they should default to 'do
NOT spam me' and require an affirmative action on your part to check them}]

Permission to e-mail me is NOT transferable nor open ended.

If I give company ABC permission to mail me, it is limited to products that
THEY sell and that I have told them I am interested in hearing about.

If they ASSUME I want any email from them (or their 'associates'), other
than directly related to my particular order, that will be the LAST order
they ever get from me.

I use 'tagged' email addresses or use 'www.spammotel.org' to generate a
unique address so that I KNOW to whom the address was given.

If they missuse it, they 'abuse' my trust and I want nothing more to do
with them.

If we make clear to ALL vendors that we will act this way, they WILL get
the message and stop spamming.



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bz 73 de N5BZ k

please pardon my infinite ignorance, the set-of-things-I-do-not-know is an
infinite set.

remove ch100-5 to avoid spam trap