I haven't seen it before Gerard, but indeed, if it's real, it's disturbing.
I actually have little doubt that it's true, or if not in this case, that
someone is marketing something very much like this.
I use spy-sweeper software to delete all the adware and cookies that are left
on my computer daily from the web. It's scary how much there is daily. The
adware is there to track my likes and dislikes and web surfing practices.
This isn't the only thing that's tracked of course. I recently incorporated
a small business on the side and have started getting offers addressed to the
business by snail mail. This could only have come from the Secretary of State
where I filed the articles of incorporation. So someone is monitoring
government agency filings and marketing off that information.
Five or six years ago, our home address changed, as part of the 911 emergency
response program. My house number changed from 1101 to 5770, to make it
conform to the number sequences used in the rest of the area. Last week, we
started getting mail again to the 1101 address, from our bank, and the phone
company! Obviously someone resurrected some old information and is passing it
around again.
As my junk mail has dwindled, except for 0% credit card offers, my spam has
increased. Same culos, new venue.
Robert Houston
Texan in New Mexico
There is a general place in your brain, I think, reserved for 'melancholy of
relationships past.' It grows and prospers as life progresses, forcing you
finally, against your better judgment, to listen to country music.
- Kary Mullis
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