[RaceBannon]

I have never heard of anyone who received porn in the e-mail that didnt sign up for it in the first place, did this happen to you? Do you live alone? Did your son sign up for something that you didnt discover yet?

[FreePaul]

I have never heard of anyone who received porn in the e-mail that didnt sign up for it

You have to realize that some people's idea of porn is a woman with her face showing.

[Gorzaloon]

I have never heard of anyone who received porn in the e-mail that didnt sign up for it in the first place, did this happen to you? Do you live alone? Did your son sign up for something that you didnt discover yet? Stay online and post in newsgroups and have web pages for enough years and you will begin to get it, too, just like any other SPAM.

We have no children..But my WIFE gets them also, and I have heard from many friends who likewise get on one spam list too many. I believe this should be a felony!

I attack and report any spammer who does this, but it does little good. I hate spam to begin with. But these XXX ones send me ballistic.

Look, the way the web is, if I ever want it, I can get it...WHY does anyone need to massmail advertise it!

Also, remember that people can sign you up for it, out of malice or as a "Joke".

And once they do that, you are inundated because they sell the lists to each other.

That is why spammers deserve a bullet to the head.

[Numbers Guy]

I have never heard of anyone who received porn in the e-mail that didnt sign up for it in the first place, did this happen to you?

I suspect he's talking about spam e-mails featuring links to porn websites. Those spam e-mails are not the fault of the receiver. Porn sites buy e-mail lists which are culled from any number of legitimate sources (postings on regular non-porn Usenet newsgroups or online subscription newspapers for instance). Then they send their spam. I've never visited a porn site in my life yet I get porn spam. I delete it immediately, no problem.

[billbears]

I have received porn email before without requesting it. I responded to a webmaster on a historical site. Apparently he did not like my response for within 30 minutes I received two viruses via email(blocked them easily enough) and for about three months received email from porn sites that he more than gladly signed me up for. Learned my lesson quickly never to reply from an email I ever planned to use again unless I trusted the recepient

[afbrat]

I have never heard of anyone who received porn in the e-mail that didnt sign up for it in the first place, did this happen to you?

I guess you don't know anyone with a hotmail account. Nothing that come is too hard-core, but the pictures don't leave much to the imagination. They are full of links to other places.

[FreeTally]

I have never heard of anyone who received porn in the e-mail that didnt sign up for it in the first place, did this happen to you?

It is my understanding that Hotmail sells email address lists - and I would suppose other services do too. My nearly 60 year-old mother gets the same porn-spam that I do, and I know she did not sign up for it.

[wjcsux]

I get some of this stuff weekly w/o ever having visited any of the XXX sites. All it really takes is net surfing, and getting cookies left behind. Many websites appear to sell or give away e-mail addresses. I send all of my unwanted spam that I get on AOL to "tosfiles". It apparently works because I get less and less.

[poopsie2]

I don't know about anyone else, but I have Webtv, and the sex spam on my main address is overwhelming. I have never visited such a site...

[Mamzelle]

You're talking to one, (someone who gets unsolicited porn emails) and I have a private email under my own name and business. Right now it drives me crazy, rushing to delete a pile of maddening emails before my kids see them. It was, I am sure, a leftwinger who objected to something I said here and in Salon's Table Talk, and who "stalked" me until he found my loco, then dropped my address into the septic systems of which he is a regular participant. Yuck. Any advice on how to get free of the barrage?

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

What?  You've never received porn spam?   I've received it numerous times, as well as quite a few people I know.

[GuillermoX]

I have never heard of anyone who received porn in the e-mail that didnt sign up for it in the first place

Bwaaahaahahahahhhaaaaa!!!! LOL. You may be right about never hearing about it, but it DOES happen. If you have an AOL email address your mail will be flooded with porn mail pretty quickly. Even quicker if you have a user "profile" or go into chat rooms. If you use a free email service such as Juno, you will also recieve unsolicited porn mail (I guess they sell their member lists).

I have NEVER visited a porn site, signed up to be a member of one or asked to be emailed information on one and have deleted thousands of porn solicitations in the 7 yrs I've had an email address.

[Registered]

I have never heard of anyone who received porn in the e-mail that didnt sign up for it in the first place, did this happen to you?

Race, guess how many people have signed "registered@aol.com" up for porn on this planet? Just take a guess.

[Antoninus]

I have never heard of anyone who received porn in the e-mail that didnt sign up for it in the first place, did this happen to you? Do you live alone? Did your son sign up for something that you didnt discover yet?

Race, believe it. They send unsolicited stuff all the time. The particularly insidious ones troll the AOL catholic/christian/spirituality chat rooms, collect email addresses and send IMs. Thanks to my visits to such chat rooms, my AOL account attracts about 5 porn messages per day and no matter how many times I forward them to AOL TOS or block their domains, I keep getting them.

Of course, I know the solution is probably to ditch AOL.

[Prodigal Daughter]

I have never heard of anyone who received porn in the e-mail that didnt sign up for it in the first place, did this happen to you? Do you live alone? Did your son sign up for something that you didnt discover yet?

When Elian was in Miami, I went to a prayer rally held by an evangelist from India who had traveled to Cuba and was shocked by the amount of child prostitutes he saw. So I did some research on the net. Never do a search "child exploitation Cuba" or "child prostitution Cuba". I was prepared that some pornographic sites would be included in the search, and I didn't have a filter on or else I didn't think I would be able to get the information, but some of the sites were imposters. They looked like academic site descriptions, but for instance, clicked on one and had at least 40 pop-up ads of mostly graphic bestiality. Then my e-mail-box filled up with pornographic ads over the next few weeks. I didn't have time to close out my account, but deleting them over the next few weeks, they stopped.

[ivanhoe116]

I have never heard of anyone who received porn in the e-mail that didnt sign up for it in the first place,

Not true the bots are everywhere try (Ad-Aware 5.62)