I don't mind paying at all. I just wondered whether it was rip-off spam !
Jenny


Very wise.

Beware the scam on ebay accounts. You will be targeted and informed that
illegal transactions have taken place on your account and would you please
confirm your details and pass words etc. I suspected that it was a scam and
went and looked following their instructions!!! Very very authentic!! I did
nothing and my account is still open and trading some 2 months after the
event. AND I still get the scams :-((

Mike

"Mike" wrote in message ...

I don't mind paying at all. I just wondered whether it was rip-off spam !
Jenny


Very wise.

Beware the scam on ebay accounts. You will be targeted and informed that
illegal transactions have taken place on your account and would you please
confirm your details and pass words etc. I suspected that it was a scam and
went and looked following their instructions!!! Very very authentic!! I did
nothing and my account is still open and trading some 2 months after the
event. AND I still get the scams :-((

Mike

Yes, but it not ebay.....
It seems genuine enough ......
Jenny

JennyC wrote:
"Mike" wrote in message
...

I don't mind paying at all. I just wondered whether it was
rip-off
spam ! Jenny


Very wise.

Beware the scam on ebay accounts. [...good stuff snipped...]

Yes, but it not ebay.....
It seems genuine enough ......
Jenny

I'm still suspicious. I received the email, but Yahoo! put it in my
bulk folder: surely the real people would have been able to
circumvent that? I regularly receive bulk emails that I actually want
from various sources -- BBC, Amazon, etc -- and they go to my inbox
without being intercepted.

And I know they're German, but surely they know better than to write
"April 1th" (significant date) and "March 31th"? Thoundth rather like
a thtunt.

Mike.

"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
...
JennyC wrote:
"Mike" wrote in message
...

I don't mind paying at all. I just wondered whether it was
rip-off
spam ! Jenny


Very wise.

Beware the scam on ebay accounts. [...good stuff snipped...]

Yes, but it not ebay.....
It seems genuine enough ......
Jenny

I'm still suspicious. I received the email, but Yahoo! put it in my
bulk folder: surely the real people would have been able to
circumvent that? I regularly receive bulk emails that I actually want
from various sources -- BBC, Amazon, etc -- and they go to my inbox
without being intercepted.

And I know they're German, but surely they know better than to write
"April 1th" (significant date) and "March 31th"? Thoundth rather like
a thtunt.

There's a nice phishing quiz here to test (and maybe improve) your skillz:

http://survey.mailfrontier.com/survey/quiztest.html

Glen Able wrote:

"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
...

JennyC wrote:

"Mike" wrote in message
...

I don't mind paying at all. I just wondered whether it was

rip-off

spam ! Jenny

Having been to their site (directly) I believe it genuine. However I
can only find the subscription service in German. Anyone got it in
English yet?

"Broadback" wrote in message
...
Glen Able wrote:

"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
...

JennyC wrote:

"Mike" wrote in message
...

I don't mind paying at all. I just wondered whether it was
rip-off spam ! Jenny

Having been to their site (directly) I believe it genuine. However I
can only find the subscription service in German. Anyone got it in
English yet?

http://news.individual.net/register.php (GB version)

I mailed them back :
I use the News.Individual.NET server to access newsgroups. Does this
mean I need to sign up or not ?

and this is the reply I got:

Yes, you need to sign up if you want to continue using your account
for News.Individual.NET.
Regards,
Bettina Fink


I suppose we could all wait until April to see if it is a hoax :~))
Meanwhile I'll try using my providers news server, Maybe it's improved since I
last tried it:~)
Jenny

In message , Broadback
writes
Having been to their site (directly) I believe it genuine. However I
can only find the subscription service in German. Anyone got it in
English yet?

http://news.individual.net/register.php
--
Chris French and Helen Johnson, Leeds
urg Suppliers and References FAQ:
http://www.familyfrench.co.uk/garden/urgfaq/index.html

In message , Mike Lyle
writes
JennyC wrote:
"Mike" wrote in message
...

I don't mind paying at all. I just wondered whether it was
rip-off
spam ! Jenny


Very wise.

Beware the scam on ebay accounts. [...good stuff snipped...]

Yes, but it not ebay.....
It seems genuine enough ......
Jenny

I'm still suspicious. I received the email, but Yahoo! put it in my
bulk folder: surely the real people would have been able to
circumvent that?

No scanning system is going to be perfect and how do n.i.n know what
technique Yahoo use?

And I know they're German, but surely they know better than to write
"April 1th" (significant date) and "March 31th"? Thoundth rather like
a thtunt.

It is perfectly genuine, the stuff is on their website.

http://news.individual.net/commercial.php

Personally, while sad I'm not surprised, but I think it just got too
popular.. At 10 Euro it's still a bargain.
--
Chris French and Helen Johnson, Leeds
urg Suppliers and References FAQ:
http://www.familyfrench.co.uk/garden/urgfaq/index.html

Chris French and Helen Johnson wrote:
In message , Mike Lyle
[...]
I'm still suspicious. I received the email, but Yahoo! put it in
my
bulk folder: surely the real people would have been able to
circumvent that?

No scanning system is going to be perfect and how do n.i.n know
what
technique Yahoo use?

If they aren't likely to know, who on earth is? I get regular bulk
mailings from, e.g., the BBC, Computer Weekly, and Amazon straight to
my inbox without interception. It's interesting that this is the
first non-spam I can remember Yahoo sending to the bulk folder in a
year or so.

And I know they're German, but surely they know better than to
write
"April 1th" (significant date) and "March 31th"? Thoundth rather
like
a thtunt.

It is perfectly genuine, the stuff is on their website.

http://news.individual.net/commercial.php

Personally, while sad I'm not surprised, but I think it just got
too
popular.. At 10 Euro it's still a bargain.

Yes, I've checked, too, and I see that it is genuine; and six quid is
certainly a bargain, even with their occasional erratic failures to
post (the dreaded "line 3 too long").

Mike.

In message , Mike Lyle
writes
Chris French and Helen Johnson wrote:
It is perfectly genuine, the stuff is on their website.

http://news.individual.net/commercial.php

Personally, while sad I'm not surprised, but I think it just got
too
popular.. At 10 Euro it's still a bargain.

Yes, I've checked, too, and I see that it is genuine; and six quid is
certainly a bargain, even with their occasional erratic failures to
post (the dreaded "line 3 too long").

Never, in who knows how many years have I had a failure to post a
message AFAIK. Anyway, always was worth the money :-)
--
Chris French and Helen Johnson, Leeds
urg Suppliers and References FAQ:
http://www.familyfrench.co.uk/garden/urgfaq/index.html

"Chris French and Helen Johnson" wrote


It is perfectly genuine, the stuff is on their website.

http://news.individual.net/commercial.php

Personally, while sad I'm not surprised, but I think it just got too
popular.. At 10 Euro it's still a bargain.
--
Chris French and Helen Johnson, Leeds
urg Suppliers and References FAQ:
http://www.familyfrench.co.uk/garden/urgfaq/index.html

Oh well, if you think it's OK Chris, it probably is :~))
Jenny

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:47:59 -0000, Mike Lyle wrote:

And I know they're German, but surely they know better than to write
"April 1th" (significant date) and "March 31th"? Thoundth rather like
a thtunt.

That's a common mistake made by many otherwise very good English speakers
in Germany.

In written German it's all the same - just a dot = 31.July, 1.April,
2. Oktober. This might explain it as a genuine mistake. (even if it isn't).
The administrator who wrote the code isn't necessarily a graduate in
English. ;-)

--
Tim C.