Spam in your PM
hookooekoo
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Edit July 3:
He's at it again.
Hello,
I am a coin collector from India and presently working on USA type set. Can i know if you have some old Beauties that you have spare and interested in finding a new home for them.
Bye,
Is it possible to block PM from a single user?
Original Message:
I'm I just lucky or do we have a new member spamming everyone (granted it is coin related spam).
This is the message I recieved:
Hello,
I am from India and currently putting up a collection on USA Type set in raw variety(no slabed or proof). I have already collected coins of 20th century except for the barber coins. If you have any spare coin that would be helpful in my collection and willing to exchange with coins from India. Please feel free to pm me.
Bye,
XXXXX (name changed to protect the guilty).
Edit to fix the typo in title
He's at it again.
Hello,
I am a coin collector from India and presently working on USA type set. Can i know if you have some old Beauties that you have spare and interested in finding a new home for them.
Bye,
Is it possible to block PM from a single user?
Original Message:
I'm I just lucky or do we have a new member spamming everyone (granted it is coin related spam).
This is the message I recieved:
Hello,
I am from India and currently putting up a collection on USA Type set in raw variety(no slabed or proof). I have already collected coins of 20th century except for the barber coins. If you have any spare coin that would be helpful in my collection and willing to exchange with coins from India. Please feel free to pm me.
Bye,
XXXXX (name changed to protect the guilty).
Edit to fix the typo in title
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Comments
The good thing about having multiple personalities is that there's always a designated driver.
Yes, I'm an agent of Satan but my duties are largely ceremonial.
He is a really good guy from India trying to collect US coins. A lot of members have sent him some lower grade raw. All he is asking for is a little help as it can be difficult from where he is. Yes using the PM may not be proper COIN FORUM etiquette but who does 100% of the time.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
That's why I figured I wouldn't flame the guy by name in public.
"Senorita HepKitty"
"I want a real cool Kitty from Hepcat City, to stay in step with me" - Bill Carter
I see no harm nor any foul here.
BTW, I'm from the southwestern east most part of Northern Slobovia and I collect high grade toned Frankies. Yagotne?
The good thing about having multiple personalities is that there's always a designated driver.
Yes, I'm an agent of Satan but my duties are largely ceremonial.
"Senorita HepKitty"
"I want a real cool Kitty from Hepcat City, to stay in step with me" - Bill Carter
The good thing about having multiple personalities is that there's always a designated driver.
Yes, I'm an agent of Satan but my duties are largely ceremonial.
"Senorita HepKitty"
"I want a real cool Kitty from Hepcat City, to stay in step with me" - Bill Carter
The PM wouldn't have come off so much like spam if it had been a message like...
I was reading the tread entitled blab blab Barber blab and you seem to be a collector of Barber coins. I am ... blab blab ... and hoped you might have some spare barber coins you might like to trade.
... but since I haven't been discussing barber coinage, there was nothing to prompt the user to PM specifically me.
As an example, this type of message addressed to LucyBop inquiring about Frankies would make a lot of cents, but since I don't know of anything that would have prompted this user to ask specifically me about barber coins, I'm ASSUMING he's sending mass PMs and hence the reason I'm calling it spam.
My purpose for this thread was to see if my asumption was correct. Other wise, I didn't send back any nasty replies (or as I said, even named the user who sent the message).
I always be-bop on over to your site to see what you have for sale from time to time.
The good thing about having multiple personalities is that there's always a designated driver.
Yes, I'm an agent of Satan but my duties are largely ceremonial.
"Senorita HepKitty"
"I want a real cool Kitty from Hepcat City, to stay in step with me" - Bill Carter
The good thing about having multiple personalities is that there's always a designated driver.
Yes, I'm an agent of Satan but my duties are largely ceremonial.
If you would just dip those corroded coins, some of them might come out bright and beautiful...
"Senorita HepKitty"
"I want a real cool Kitty from Hepcat City, to stay in step with me" - Bill Carter
"Senorita HepKitty"
"I want a real cool Kitty from Hepcat City, to stay in step with me" - Bill Carter
If you would just take your coins out of your blue jeans pocket before you wash them, you wouldn't be getting those textile patterns on your nice shiny coins.
<running away very fast now...>
At least he didn't offer to increase my penis size, or tell me how low mortgage rates are.
Russ, NCNE
The second one I thought, "Ok, he made a mistake an PM'd the same guy twice"
The third time, "I am going to turn off my PM if this guys sends me one more PM"
I firmly believe that a PM (PRIVATE Message) should remain private. And, while you didn't disclose the name of the sender, you revealed enough information, so that many forum members will and do know, to whom you are referring.
You could have sent the person a PM in return, if you had a question about or problem with the message you received.
You are, by no means, the only one who has done this, so please don't feel like I'm picking (just) on you.
1-Dammit Boy Oct 14,2003
International Coins
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Wayne
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e-mail: wayne.whatley@gmail.com
Russ, could you forward me that email on penis enlargement. I have this friend who might be interested.
2 Cam-Slams!
1 Russ POTD!
But now that I've gotten the SECOND one, I am annoyed.
Coinguy1:
I firmly believe that a PM (PRIVATE Message) should remain private. And, while you didn't disclose the name of the sender, you revealed enough information, so that many forum members will and do know, to whom you are referring.
I would generally tend to agree that PM should remain private.
As far as "revealing enough information...", I felt like the only ones who would know to whom I was refering would only be others who recieved the same spam (there wasn't a whole like of personal information revealed and the user was someone I'd never seen and figured was a pretty new user.
Perhaps I should have just listed the basics of the message, Copy-N-Paste was the quick way. At least I didn't do one of those pathetic name changes like "Hermatige" when I'm trying to "secretly" refer to Haritage.
However; in this case, the PM apparently wasn't "private" at all as is seems to truly be SPAM.
"Senorita HepKitty"
"I want a real cool Kitty from Hepcat City, to stay in step with me" - Bill Carter
The guy was asking to trade coins - I'm not seeing the problem. Isn't that the point of this board?
With that kind of logic, you could argue that it's ok to "Key Word SPAM" your eBay auctions because the point of eBay is to sell your stuff?
There is a right way and a wrong way to use the resources we have available. The right way for message like the referenced PM is our Buy/Sell/Trade board, not spamming our PM.
As I said in effect in a previous response, I wouldn't have considered it SPAM if it had been addressed personally to me and written because the auther knew I had an interest in the specific coins mentioned (i.e. sending a message like this to LucyBop wanting to trade in Frankies).
2 Cam-Slams!
1 Russ POTD!
"Senorita HepKitty"
"I want a real cool Kitty from Hepcat City, to stay in step with me" - Bill Carter
Those are magnificent Frankies! (and I'm not a Frankie kind of guy!) I love'em!
Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.