A Little Confusion To The Response Of Spam

Confuzor

<div class="IPBDescription">I'm a little paranoid...</div> Thanks to the inevitability of the end of high school, I decided to sign up for a scholarship website that would keep me updated on upcoming scholarship awards. Only problem is I think that part of the deal is that I would end up getting spam from other companies.

Just a quick question: Whenever a message gives you the choice of being taken off the e-mail list, should I be suspicious that this is what they will indeed do? Or do they just use it as information to recognize, "Yeah, this e-mail account is active. Begin the barrage!" <i>/'Ode to Joy' plays in the background</i>

Damn it... I'm finally being forced to use my e-mail on a minimum weekly basis now...

Creepie

Use a separate email addy to sign up to web things like spammeyoubuggers@whatever.com. Keep it apart from your personal email what you give to your mates.

l3igD

yea i use hotmail to sign up to anything and my payed email for really emailing ppl

Confuzor

I actually have a separate e-mail that I meant to dedicate to spam, but I generally tend to check it less often because... it's spam.

Since scholarships ARE important to me right now, I thought it would be wiser to simply sign it up with my main account.

Someone thwack me with a smart stick please.

<b>OHH THAT SMARTS!</b>

Smoke_Nova

Confuzor, I didn't really bother with those scholarship things. For the most part, unless your really good at writing and stuff, you won't get them. Think of how many high-school seniors exist in your highschool. Multiply that by 10-20k. and that's being minimal.

A+ students always get the best stuff.

ThePhilips

I use my hotmail for everything. All stuff I sign up to ect, I get atleast 100emails / day

Confuzor

This term: Six 'A's (all > 90%) and one 'B'.

That 'B' was from career preparation... <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

<b>LOL!!!!1111 H3 H4Z N0 FUT4R!</b>

Seriously, I don't; I haven't signed up for a single post-secondary institution yet, and that's because reality hit me hard in realizing that there is no way in hell that I can set up a decent portfolio in time to get a course in animation. Temporary redirection until then; I'll be taking English or creative writing for university next year after I finish my military basic training for the summer. I'll work on my portfolio while I'm at it, and then go for animation in college/technical school.

Moquiao

i use 2 accounts... a yahoo one which i have to empty every week (600+) and hotmail gets around 60 per day... but i check it around 20 so i get themin 10's

Xyth

<!--QuoteBegin--Smoke Nova+Dec 10 2003, 02:31 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Smoke Nova @ Dec 10 2003, 02:31 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Confuzor, I didn't really bother with those scholarship things. For the most part, unless your really good at writing and stuff, you won't get them. Think of how many high-school seniors exist in your highschool. Multiply that by 10-20k. and that's being minimal.

A+ students always get the best stuff. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
hoho! But see, alot of people think that. My sister won a 3k one, just because <i>she was the only one that entered</i>. Alot of those scholarship ones just end without anybody taking the prize.