Re: To Google:

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 04:51:03 GMT, Stephen Montgomery-Smith
<stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>William Elliot wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, gb7648 wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Finding myself contact the customer support of a company which I did not
>>>sign a sevice agreement with, violates consumer rights. I have another
>>>preferred newsgroup reader which I pay for as part of my internet
>>>service provider package. Google intrudes on my consumer rights and
>>>represents illegal and even anticompetitive business aptitudes.
>>>
>>
>> That's hyper-modern ultra-commercial greedy greasy globalization.
>> I've had my account on ebay terminated for lack of response
>> regarding intrusions into my account that I never established
>> and often posts from Pay-Pal about my non-existent account.
>
>I've never had an account on ebay, but I get a huge number of emails
>telling me that they are going to close my account unless I connect to
>some web site (which usually has weird numbers like 10.4.5.6 in them)
>and cough up all my personal details. Actually I get quite a number of
>these kinds of emails from various other banks as well. One time I even
>got an email like this from a bank where I have an account. I have to
>admit that I didn't follow it up, but fortunately for me my bank didn't
>seem to notice, and my account is still working fine.
>
>Oh, and while I am at it, I also get quite a lot of emails from Nigeria
>offering me huge sums of money. But then again, I guess I shouldn't be
>telling you about this, because they ask me to keep their emails
>confidential.
>
>Other than that, I do get the odd email offering me drugs at cut rates,
>and quite a number written in what I think is Chinese or Japanese.
>
>Oh, and once in a while I sometimes get an email from a friend or a
>colleague.

I hate those in the last category. I can never figure out where
to click to claim my prize or prevent disaster or whatever.

************************

David C. Ullrich
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