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Comment from Don't use123 on 2009-05-09

2009-05-10T02:47:05Z

I once registered to send a card via 123greetings; I've since been receiving 5-6 spam messages a day(From 'editor bob' or '123greetings', from mortgage refinancing to enlargement pills. No matter how many times I mark it at spam, they get around it.

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Comment from mukesh on 2006-12-13

2006-12-14T04:49:05Z

happy new year

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Comment from 123hater on 2006-11-21

2006-11-21T14:26:10Z

And since I forgot to mention, the pill-pushing spam was from 123greeting.

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Comment from 123hater on 2006-11-21

2006-11-21T14:25:00Z

After unsubscribing an invalid email address from 123greetings.com (I route the malformed email at work, e.g., boob@ instead of bob@ ...), we got more spam but the nature changed from 'send a greeting card' to pill pushing. Pathetic.

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Comment from mubasshira on 2006-09-23

2006-09-23T07:11:57Z

i like cards becausa it is fun

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Comment from sajithkumar on 2006-02-08

2006-02-08T23:35:09Z

I am running a web site called
http://365greetings.com

I have started mainly because of the iritating pop ups which other companies put it on their site. Also I do not believe in selling the email adress to third party as it will be actually do negative effect in long run.

I hope lot of services will come up who will push out this greedy people who is putting excess popups and selling email adress

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Comment from jodie on 2006-01-29

2006-01-30T04:27:56Z

If it's an animated gif, try right-clicking on it and saving it, then email it to the person.

If it's flash, I don't know if you can save by the right-click menu, but it should be in your temporary internet files somewhere. Otherwise have them email it you, then send it on to your friend. At least you'll get the spam then, not your friend.

Also, with that mailto thing, can you be sure that it really is the card that gets sent to your friend and not something else, like porn or a virus?

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Comment from Martin Jones on 2005-12-14

2005-12-14T11:05:05Z

After receiving a card from 123greeting.com I got a lot of spam. I always put this down to 123greeting.com as it was an e-mail address i only gave out to friends and I did not get spam on that account before. - Beware

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Comment from Fred Gramly on 2005-11-07

2005-11-07T12:48:30Z

It is true to be wary about electronic greeting sites that is why it is a good idea to use the reputable ones that have strict privacy policies such as 123greetings.com otherwise you could always use sites that allow you to send real greeting cards and just skip ecards altogether such as moonpig and http://www.postit4u.com.au

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Comment from Greg Bulmash on 2005-10-13

2005-10-13T21:01:40Z

On my site, http://www.funnybutsick.com , our "mail this to a friend" button is actually just a complex "mailto" link (one that tells your mailer to generate a new e-mail). What many people don't realize is that you can specify the subject and even the body of a message in a mailto link.

So, let's say you don't want to specify an e-mail address, but do want to specify the subject and body of the message.

That link causes their mail program to start a new e-mail with the subject of "This is Great" and the following body (the %0A bits caused line breaks):

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You have to check out this site.

http://www.url.com
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All they have to do is fill out the friend's e-mail address and send it on. It works with most of the modern mail programs and browsers. This way they can rest assured that you're never seeing the e-mail address, because it's never going through your site.

It also helps stop abuse of your mailing forms and stops them from being marked as spam because they're going through the sender's mail program, not being sent as form-generated mail.

- Greg

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