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Old August 27th 03, 01:22 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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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?

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Old August 27th 03, 05:13 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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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.


Well, I dont think anyone else would send stuff with links to TfL!
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In article , Joe Patrick
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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?

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No, I don't get this spam.

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Lew,

Yup. I get it, even though I unsubscribed. If fact, i thought i HAD
unsubscribed once, only to suddenly get about 30 Tube Alerts emails from
them in all one day. I'm totally f'd off with them as they seem incapable
of removing my email address from their subscription list.

So you're not alone!

Geoff.

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On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 14:22:06 +0100, "Joe Patrick"
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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.

Best Wishes,
LEWIS

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David Walters wrote in
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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


LU have their own series of IP addresses, and this example did not
apparently originate from within that range.

Spolling mistooks are usually a good indication that an email is being
spoofed, the question is: why?
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On 28 Aug 2003 13:31:13 GMT, Peter Wright wrote:
David Walters wrote in
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An example is at http://www.jellybaby.net/~david/tubespam.txt


LU have their own series of IP addresses, and this example did not
apparently originate from within that range.


LU might have their IP range on the end of a connection that isn't
fast enough to send the number of emails they want to send. It's
very likely that bandwidth to a co-located server is cheaper then
getting a fatter pipe to LU HQ.

Spolling mistooks are usually a good indication that an email is being
spoofed, the question is: why?


I don't think it's spoofed, just badly put together. Most mass
mailings are.

David
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On 28 Aug 2003 13:31:13 GMT, Peter Wright wrote:
David Walters wrote in
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An example is at http://www.jellybaby.net/~david/tubespam.txt


LU have their own series of IP addresses, and this example did not
apparently originate from within that range.


LU might have their IP range on the end of a connection that isn't
fast enough to send the number of emails they want to send. It's
very likely that bandwidth to a co-located server is cheaper then
getting a fatter pipe to LU HQ.

Spolling mistooks are usually a good indication that an email is being
spoofed, the question is: why?


I don't think it's spoofed, just badly put together. Most mass
mailings are.


The email is from TfL. You (whoever was complaining in the first place)
probably forgot to tick a "don't spam me" checkbox when you bought a ticket
online or sent in a customer charter refund form.




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