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holy-cow
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BNP's rpls has tried to get past my spam filter six times today. It has been a couple of years or more since I have wandered over even once to see what was happening there, which was very close to nothing.

Anyone else experiencing this currently?

 
Posted : August 6, 2016 9:01 pm
edward-reading
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Yes! Blocked the crap out of them.

 
Posted : August 6, 2016 9:03 pm
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Yes.

 
Posted : August 6, 2016 9:18 pm
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Now that you mention it, I got one the other day. I hadn't had an email from them for years. I wouldn't call it spam. It was a notice about a posting at their forum. I think they have a relatively new editor who is probably trying to resurrect the forum.

I just read it and hit the unsubscribe.

If I file something as spam, it becomes spam forever including future mailings.

I don't check my spam folder.

I check over there maybe every few months to see if there is anything of interest. There isn't.

 
Posted : August 6, 2016 9:20 pm
bill93
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In the last couple days, I've had a half-dozen notices of new postings on there. They didn't sound too interesting so I just deleted them. I haven't posted there in a long, long time, but I suppose there could be something new on an old thread.

 
Posted : August 6, 2016 9:30 pm

(@jules-j)
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5 times today! Tried Robert's advice to unsubscribe. Got an
"We are currently down for maintenance

We will return shortly."

Chaps me off! I'll try to unsubscribe tomorrow.

 
Posted : August 6, 2016 10:19 pm
a-harris
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has been blowing my email up over some so called posts I am supposed to be following..........

[USER=444]@Jules J.[/USER]
ditto on that

 
Posted : August 6, 2016 11:39 pm
(@peter-ehlert)
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I got a small flood a few weeks ago, but no more. perhaps it is getting filtered out by the ISP

 
Posted : August 7, 2016 2:16 am
jimcox
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Robert Hill, post: 384849, member: 378 wrote: I just read it and hit the unsubscribe.

I also received a couple of messages today, realised where they were from, and also hit the unsubscribe button

 
Posted : August 7, 2016 3:05 am
dave-karoly
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I have dozens, literally, haven't been able to stop it yet.

 
Posted : August 7, 2016 7:52 am

holy-cow
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Seven more came in overnight.

 
Posted : August 7, 2016 7:54 am
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I spoke too soon, I just checked an old yahoo account:

 
Posted : August 7, 2016 7:55 am
dave-karoly
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No good trying to log in, can't change password.

I think they've been hacked.

DONT CLICK ANY LINKS IN THOSE EMAILS

 
Posted : August 7, 2016 8:01 am
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I doubt they have been hacked. It has been their business model for years.
Have a search, they probably still sell their contact list openly.

BUT true, don't click on links... that just confirms that the email was received, and that raises the sale value and encourages even more spam.

 
Posted : August 7, 2016 8:13 am
bill93
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I was able to log in this morning and change my subscription choices, which were suddenly everything possible, and certainly not what I had formerly set.

 
Posted : August 7, 2016 8:16 am

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dave-karoly
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Their site won't let me log in. It could be I'm using the wrong email.

Certain classes of my work is now absolutely nothing goes over email. Snail mail, in person or over the phone, that's it, no email allowed. This is recent. Email is easily discoverable and is insecure.

 
Posted : August 7, 2016 8:34 am
(@fattiretom)
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Report it as Spam. Gmail is blocking all communications from them now (at least for me). I've disabled all notifications on the site and I still keep getting them...

 
Posted : August 7, 2016 9:05 am
holy-cow
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Two more already, only 16 minutes apart.

 
Posted : August 7, 2016 9:42 am
scotland
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Mine are coming from this site. Are you using Tapatalk?

Sent from my SM-G925V using Tapatalk

 
Posted : August 7, 2016 9:52 am

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