[Hallicrafters] Rejection

[Alan L. Waller]

Come on guys...the paranoia is running away with common sense here.

The source of the strange e-mail earlier was an auto-responder that asked 
you to go to a web page and "subscribe" to be in an access list. I don't 
believe there was any malicious intent there, just poor judgement in an 
attempt to filter spam. I removed the offender until he fixes whatever he 
was trying to do. He was a ham, He was a legitimate subscriber, He was not 
a spammer nor an e-mail harvester.

The web page referred to below is my "404 page not found" error page. And 
very funny in my opinion. If you ask for a non existent page, make a typo. 
or intentionally make a mistake on ANY QSL.net or QTH.net URL you will meet 
my web server who will entertain you for a bit until it asks you to click a 
sponsors page. There are 10's of thousands of 404 errors daily on the 
servers, we redirect these to a banner add that pays up $.02-$.04 cents per 
click on a sponsor. It is one of the subtle ways we make money to fund the 
lists. wE get about $100 a month income from this. So the next time you see 
the error page have a good laugh then click a few sponsor pages for the cause.

73, Al


At 04:19 PM 5/12/2002 -0400, David L. Thompson wrote:
>This person now has hacked into a web page I look at occasionally.   The
>page starts to come up and a new window appears with text that states web
>page not available but the text continues on and on and finally ids thru
>mention of K3TKJ (qth.net).
>
>I trust this person will find a better use of their time that sending such
>bogud messages.
>
>And PLEASE DO NOT CLICK on the link that is sent (the web page)...its the
>same in those reject messages the gang is getting.
>
>73 Dave K4JRB
>
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