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• Did you talk to your friend? (Score:1)

  by phillup (4419)

  Did you talk to your friend to see if she gave them your email address?
  
  The reason I ask is, it seems like what is happening to you is exactly what they say will happen in their privacy statement.

  FreeFlixTix uses personally identifiable user information for the purposes of the FreeFlixTix website and the FreeFlixTix referral and movie-admission-certificate-earning credit system. For example, we use email addresses of users, and of those persons provided on their referral lists, to send an invitation to the
  • Re:Did you talk to your friend? (Score:2)

    by drhyde (1683)

    Who cares what they say? If they sent unsolicited bulk mail, they're spammers.
    • Re:Did you talk to your friend? (Score:2)

      by jdavidb (1361)

      I agree vehemently. It was very unsolicited, and very bulk. As I said, they seem to have a perfect scheme to collect an exponentially growing database of valid email addresses here, without ever having to get the permission of people as their addresses are added. I wouldn't be surprised if it's all just a front for a mailing list collection agency which then goes on to sell the lists.

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      • Re:Did you talk to your friend? (Score:2)

        by pudge (1) on 2004.05.11 18:46 (#30703) Homepage Journal

        Not that I like businesses that do this, but I blame your friend more than I blame them.

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