Tuesday, April 01, 2003

Guaranteed to INCREASE THE SIZE OF YOUR PENIS

Guaranteed to INCREASE THE SIZE OF YOUR PENIS
Written by David M. Muench

I don't know which ex-girlfriend these spammers are talking to, but they'd better knock it off.

America Online is notorious about blocking the wrong kind of spam. "You mean there's a good kind of spam?" you ask. Damn straight, bucko. It's called a subscription to an eZine, such as a newsletter or jokelist. "Subscribing" means this e-mail is not unsolicited, people actually have to subscribe to it in order to receive it. The primordial gits at AOL have apparently surmised "Yahoo!Groups" to be one of them. A friend of mine and I both have jokelists through Yahoo!Groups, and both of our most recent mailings were apparently "blocked" by America Online.

This same friend commented that she still gets the "INCREASE THE SIZE OF YOUR PENIS" e-mails in her AOL e-mail box, but not her jokelist.

True, Yahoo!Groups does have an "Opt-Out" option in the "Privacy" section; which is defaulted for those who sign up for a Yahoo! ID to receive these third-party ads. And there's something called "Web beacons," which has nothing to do with rescue teams being able to locate you after your computer crashes. Those beacons are little "gifs" that keep track of users on a webpage, and you can opt out of that too.

So if you're one of the unlucky AOLers (myself included) who haven't received their e-mail from Yahoo!Groups, or another group mailing list, I'd suggest you contact AOL Corporate and get medieval on their buttocks.

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