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  • mattytun
    mattytun Posts: 13,920 Forumite
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    southwesttrains.co.uk

    red-xbg2.gif After entering our e-mail address on this site, we received 6.1 e-mails per week. They were very spammy.
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    </td> <td>wol...@serramonte.net</td> <td>October 2007</td> </tr> <tr> <td>have you seen this yet?
    </td> <td>sul...@siam-aqua.com</td> <td>October 2007</td> </tr> <tr> <td>is this what you meant?
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    When we visited this site, we found that most of its links are to sites which are safe or have only minor safety/annoyance issues.

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    Rating: This site is good

    I Cant Comment On The Spam Never Registered But Have Used This Site Alot To Find Train Information Never Recieved Unwanted Pop Ups And Train Information Very Useful
    Posted at 01/23/2008-05:07:39 AM by RUDDIFUL, Reviewer , View profile [ Reputation score: 1 / 9 ]
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    I have never had a problem with this site.
    I have registered my email address with this site, and haven't experience any kind of spam.
    Posted at 12/05/2007-06:41:14 PM by dukedudeston, Reviewer , View profile [ Reputation score: 1 / 9 ]
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    A Useful site for planning trains BUT don't enter your email unless you want a inbox full of spam.
    Posted at 11/23/2007-02:48:37 PM by evb445, Reviewer , View profile [ Reputation score: 1 / 9 ]
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    <!-- /commentBlock --> Rating: This site spams

    Although the site is useful for travellers with this respected train operating company until they have sorted out the problem with spam I would not recommend leaving your email address. Recently I emailed SWT about my concerns and received this encouraging reply on 21 Sep 07.
    "Dear Mr Bond,
    Thank you for alerting us to the Spam emails that you have been receiving as a result of using our website. We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience that this has caused and would like to reassure you that we are taking the matter very seriously.
    The data storage method that we use does comply with principle seven of the Data Protection Act but as a result of your feedback and further testing we are putting measures in place to enhance our on site security to avoid Spam being able to penetrate our web
    forms in future. We are working on this and will have the matter
    fixed as soon as possible.
    As a measure to counteract the Spam you are receiving, we would recommend that you report the addresses to your email service provider whom can then take the necessary actions to prevent future Spam being delivered from these senders.
    We value your feedback and thank your for taking the time to bring this to our attention."
    Posted at 09/27/2007-06:09:08 PM by dominicbond1000, Reviewer , View profile [ Reputation score: 1 / 9 ]
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    Posted at 07/04/2006-07:05:24 PM by Latusrectum, Reviewer , View profile [ Reputation score: 1 / 9 ]
    Can't sleep, quit counting sheep and talk directly to the shepherd :cool:
  • excuse me but would you mind explaining why you are putting these posts on all of the southwesttrain competitions I have posted?
  • kipper_2-2
    kipper_2-2 Posts: 56,024 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Its Norton something or other, it tells you whether the website is spammy or will spam you or not, most of the time its wrong :rolleyes:
  • ryan85k
    ryan85k Posts: 1,158 Forumite
    Is it really necessary to post that thing about emails when anybody with half a brain would have set up an email address just for comping for this reason anyway?
  • rrickyuk
    rrickyuk Posts: 8,335 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Some other [STRIKE]idiot[/STRIKE] sorry comper did this earlier, about the same company, but citing McAfee.

    Neither are worth the money they cost to have (or the space they take up, on your hard disk or on threads!), and are nowhere near as efficient - in all senses - as the free stuff available via this site.

    I've been entering these comps from this site for ages and never had a problem.

    I'd advise that peops go ahead and enter, worry free.medium-smiley-047.gif
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