Many PaddleWisers have received a spam from a recent subscriber to PaddleWise who subscribed to the list, harvested email addresses from those that posted to the list, and included those email addresses without PaddleWiser's knowledge or permission to send them and advertisement of his service. This same individual attempted to post a commercial advertisement several times to PaddleWise that were blocked. He was reminded of list policy which states no commercial advertisements on PaddleWise. I guess he decided to go around that policy by building his own list out. At any rate, this practice, of course, is against list policy (email addresses may not be harvest from PaddleWise without the subscriber's knowledge and permission to build a list). It is also against the Terms of Agreement of most ISP's. I have reported the violation to this individual'sl ISP. If this happens to anyone else on the list (you suspect you have been spammed because you posted to PaddleWise), please let me know. My aim is to protect the privacy of PaddleWise subscribers and prevent such abuses to the best of my ability. This type of abuse can often cause subscribers to resist posting for fear of being included on a spam list (which is why many of us are here and not posting on Usenet or the web 8-} Many folks refuse to do business with those that spam. If you want to know the list violator's name for that reason, write me privately. He's no longer subscribed to PaddleWise. Regards, Jackie list-owner *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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