Dear XXXXXX.com [who sends me so much spam]

No, seriously, I get it -- you want to sell me influence.

You've got a business and somehow no one has implemented an in-game spam filter based on your host name... which is in every single message. You've gotten clever enough to make it cost effective to create and send spam from dozens of fly-by-night in-game names. (Someone please tell me that trial accounts can't do that.) You are truly a captain of your industry.

Yet, there's only so much my global ignore list can take.

How about we meet somewhere in the middle? How about you only send a maximum of one e-mail per month to any given character name + server name combination? Surely there's not so much name turnover that you'd miss any of us.

I'll send cookies?

sigh.

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How about we meet somewhere in the middle? How about you only send a maximum of one e-mail per month to any given character name + server name combination? Surely there's not so much name turnover that you'd miss any of us.

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That would still be one too many.

And you just gave away their website, ergo giving them free publicity

....how about we not help to advertise for the site in the thread title, hmmm?

IBTD

And In Before The End Of The Old Boards!

Maybe if it's in the title, the thread will get noticed and something will be done to save not just the children but the UNIVERSE?!

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Maybe if it's in the title, the thread will get noticed and something will be done

[/ QUOTE ] Something will probably be done, but I don't think it's what you're looking for...

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No, seriously, I get it -- you want to sell me influence.

You've got a business and somehow no one has implemented an in-game spam filter based on your host name... which is in every single message. You've gotten clever enough to make it cost effective to create and send spam from dozens of fly-by-night in-game names. (Someone please tell me that trial accounts can't do that.) You are truly a captain of your industry.

Yet, there's only so much my global ignore list can take.

How about we meet somewhere in the middle? How about you only send a maximum of one e-mail per month to any given character name + server name combination? Surely there's not so much name turnover that you'd miss any of us.

I'll send cookies?

sigh.

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So... You enjoy disregarding forum rules, do you?

I think the Dev team could create a bridge made out of the printouts of the complaints they have recieved regarding RMT that would make car travel to the moon possible. So, tell me again why they need to be reminded here? Do you think they forgot??

Honestly, I think it's a limited reading of the do not "post or transmit advertisements or commercial solicitations" rule to say I can't write the name of one of the sites that's spamming me in a complaint message on a City Life thread.

But, whatever. I've changed the subject.

Changing power colors was once the in realm of things that were infeasible to do with the game engine and thus would never be done.

Surely we can get a spam filter? Even a keyword matching filter would work with the spam so far.

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Honestly, I think it's a limited reading of the do not "post or transmit advertisements or commercial solicitations" rule to say I can't write the name of one of the sites that's spamming me in a complaint message on a City Life thread.

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A limited reading to which, historically, the Mods have adhered.

I surrender my complaint and off-topic-wandering thread to the forum wipe.

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Honestly, I think it's a limited reading of the do not "post or transmit advertisements or commercial solicitations" rule to say I can't write the name of one of the sites that's spamming me in a complaint message on a City Life thread.

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Funny how you consider it a limited reading of the rule when you yourself are ignoring the last part of that rule which clearly says:

"any post that discusses an action prohibited by the User Agreement are not allowed."

Pot meet kettle.

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That right there is the operative phrase. It is perhaps the easiest thing in the universe to go around a spam filter.

Other, better, suggestions have been made.

Also, whether it is against the forum rules or not, do you really WANT to advertise for a site that you don't like? It seems antithetical to your stated purpose.

Now the OP is advertising a... different website...

Can I advertise my hatred of the ingame email system and my continued desire for the devs to make it where I can DISABLE THE GORRAM THING?

I went to XXXXXX.com to buy some hawt influence, but that wasn't what they were serving...

hmmm all they seem to give out at XXXXXX.com is pixilated naked people why do I want to pay for that?

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I'll send cookies?

sigh.

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You have my attention

I don't get why they can't just remove the email system entirely.

Or at least make it so that only people on your global friends list can email you.

Remember, if you remove the e-mail system, the spam will end up back on broadcast.

I agree - don't remove the email system but for those of us who NEVER EVER EVER use it, let us disable mail on either an account by account basis or a character by character basis.

Alternatively, allow me to turn of the email recieved notification that turns the 'email' on my chat menu red - if that didn't keep turning red I could actually ignore any and all incoming email. (I know, I know - I should be able to ignore the stupid red letters - but then again, the dev's should also be able to implement a few simple QoL features, so we are about even on that front).

I really don't see the problem with just clicking spam in email. It takes maybe 3 seconds at most. I hate people who act like deleting spam emails is severely hindering their gaming experience. If you play a character frequently, you might get one or two per sign-in. That should take about 0.5 seconds to get rid of. Hell, I've gone away for a few months and come back to a ton of emails. 4 seconds of clicking and they are all gone and on ignore. You people overreact.

This is my first post in these forums, and allow me to express my disgust with how you people are acting.

OP lays down a problem, be it in an esoteric way, but to express to the developers and the perpetrators that enough is enough, and I share his view.

How does that give anyone other than a moderator the right to start reading the rule book and ruining this thread with a page long argument about whether he should of posted at all.

Start acting like you have a brain and use your common sense. Advertising... hah!

I feel this is a serious issue. Blocking certain headers, limiting the amount of mail an account can send, disable mail usage on trial accounts or new charecters... do these sound like difficult solutions?