So. . . every couple months I get spammed for days straight from classmates.com because someone has looked at my page, signed the guestbook, or maybe even THOUGHT about looking at something for all I know.
Every couple months I attempt to CANCEL receiving email from them, since I could really care less about it. I -might- care if you didn’t go there only to find out you can’t see anything without first paying them money. I’m sure those of you that have been to the site know what I’m talking about. The best part is, you can’t even cancel or change your email settings without first signing in and walking through 15 ads.
I don’t even KNOW what my damn password is. I signed up 5+ years ago, and that’s the only time I was ever “logged in”. So, since I don’t know my password, I can’t even login to unsubscribe. Imagine a scenario where you have an email address, let’s say spongebob788@happydomain.com and you sign up at classmates.com with it. 2 years tick by and you no longer have that email address, but someone else signs up with happydomain.com, picks the address “spongebob788″, and now they’re getting your classmates.com spam, and they can’t cancel it!
Since I can’t unsubscribe, and they have NO other means to contact them other than through the website once you’ve signed in, I’m left with one choice.
-BLOCK THE BASTARDS-
That’s right, I run my own network and email infrastructure, so I looked up their CIDR range at ARIN, which happens to be:
Add that to your firewall, block port 25, and you’ll never receive crap from them ever again (unless they change providers, then you’d just have to add their new CIDR)
So, classmates.com – “SUCK MY FIREWALL”
Samantha
March 16th, 2009
I hate those bastards. I’ve been getting random e-mails for years and I don’t even remember signing up with them.
thanks for the heads-up, Rich,
Joy
August 22nd, 2009
I can’t even sign-in to cancel a subscription i had years ago…and I’m still being charged for for membership. I want it to stop!!