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At random: When the nuclear powered submarine USS SEADRAGON surfaced at the North Pole while charting the Northwest passage in August 1960, the crew organized a baseball game. Because of Polar time differences, when a batter clouted a home run it would land in either the next day or in 'yesterday'.

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Ric

Posted 2008-10-27 10:12 AM (#20836)

Plankowner

Posts: 9165

Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map.

Subject: Just turned a text messaging spammer in....

...to the National Do Not Call Registry. My number has been on file for 5 years with them and this is the second spammer I've turned in.

I refuse to pay text messaging fees for spam.

https://www.donotcall.gov/complaint/complaintcheck.aspx

SOB490

Posted 2008-10-28 5:59 PM (#20900 - in reply to #20836)

Old Salt

Posts: 489

Location: San Freakcisco CA area

Subject: RE: Just turned a text messaging spammer in....

Here are a couple more sites that supposedly have teeth that I report ALL spam to, whether it be texters on my cell phone or those schmucks who get thru my E-mail spam filters:

IRS: phishing@irs.gov

Federal Trade Commission: spam@uce.gov

California Attorney General: dca@dca.ca.gov [Check - your own state AG probably has a reporting E-mail addy too]

Plus I take the time to notify companies that are used for phishing, i.e. banks, S&Ls, Amazon, E-bay, department store chains, and the like. They all have spam and/or fraud reporting E-mail addresses -- and I use them.

If the company being used in a phishing scam doesn't care, nobody else will -- especially not our ISPs themselves. But the companies do care and they do take action. It is worth a few more entries in your E-mail address book, believe me. I've actually received a few calls from those company security departments as part of their followup - and they are really pissed at the scammers.

Oh, yes, another tip -- I set my filters and block all ".info" URLs and addresses - they are really proliferating and have absolutely nothing that I'm interested in getting in my inbox.

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