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Old August 28th 03, 11:47 AM posted to uk.transport.london
David Walters David Walters is offline
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Default Tube Spam

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:21:17 +0100, Clive D. W. Feather wrote:
In article , "Lew 1 (from
the UK)" writes
I keep getting Spam from saying things like Win Free
Tube Travel and telling me to go to TfL sites to enter competitions. Is
anyone else getting them?

If it is really officially from TfL, then I would have thought it
would have an unsubscribe option possibly at the bottom of the email.


If it is really officially from TfL, then either:
- you agreed at some past time to receive it, in which case it is good
practice for them to include an unsubscribe feature, or
- you haven't so agreed, in which case they're breaking the law.

However, it might not actually be from them. It would be worth tracing
through the headers, if you know how.


Nothing useful in the headers. They come from a fairly anonymous
IP address that could be anything.

An example is at
http://www.jellybaby.net/~david/tubespam.txt

No unsubscribe options and it's not very well written:
"If you can read this you are receiving this email in the
wrong format, your email may not be html enables"

David