Signal's office and the publisher
Raimo Kaarna in Lahti, Finland
What's happening there now ?
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11.203 hits by now...
Scan type: Auto-Protect Scan Event: Risk Found! Risk: W32.Blackmal.E@mm!enc File: Fw: SeX.mpg>>SeX.mim Location: Mail System Computer: TARGA User: TARGA\Raimo Kaarna Action taken: Cleaned by Deletion Date found: 24. tammikuuta 2008 10:02:00Someone tried to sell fake medicine to signal's email address using the same signal's email address as sender !!! I guess hundreds of you must have received the same emails ??? As to other illegal offers someone keeps telling me that my paypal account (I do NOT have any paypal account) or my credit card account (I do NOT have any credit cards) have been hacked and will be closed and therefore I should send my username and password to them. All those rich inheritants, ex-generals and ex-ministers, ex-business executives, etc. who have funds to invest in business or real estate need help to save their money into my bank account, for great commission of course. At least 20-30 'medicine firms' try to sell viagra, botox etc every day, and rose grand from Canada tries to get me to work in a hotel... Dutch, African, Asian email lottery systems tell me that I have won millions in their lotteries and they need my bank account number to save the money there. At first I should reply their "confidential" mail and not to tell anyone about this great success !!!!
It is the last day of 2007... What next year will bring to you or to me is to be seen. During the existence of the internet dozens of printed penpal papers have ceased their issueance, some of us have taken a fresh start on the web. Long live the Signal - bottoms up !!!! - long live the other hobby and penpal magazines and their publishers. And long live all the Signal readers !!!
Many readers sent their local dolls in national costumers as "payment" for their ads in the Signal during the past decades. Some of the dolls above.
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I receive dozens of spam emails every day about winning in lottery, money transfer, heritance, work abroad, etc etc etc.
As you should know they are all fraud, lies, some criminals are testing your knowledge and trying to steal your money from you...
Please click the below link to protect yourself from getting swindled !
"Work in our Hotel",
"Help me get Millions out of the Country"
The automatic robots of spammers are collecting email addresses from web pages worldwide. The Signal tries to make this work a bit harder by
replacing the @ with =AT= in the address, the robots may not recognise these email addresses and we all get less spam, I hope.
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Common sense is always needed when reading the ads in the Signal or in any other penpal and dating publications and websites.
There are always dishonest persons among the sincere and honest ones.
SOME SIMPLE ADVICE FOR YOU:
1) NEVER send any money
for any reason to your new and unknown friends;
2) If something sounds too good to be true it is NOT true;
3) BEWARE OF SCAMS :
"Work in our Hotel",
"International Youth Conference",
"Help me get Millions out of the Country"
and illegal Chain letters.
Raimo Kaarna, the publisher
www.signalpenpals.net
Another warning may be reasonable here...
Some professional sex workers try to advertise their services in the Signal
but I do NOT accept any porno ads or other illegal ads at all. All sexually oriented advertising is censored in the Signal by me.
I try to keep the Signal "clean", it should be useful for readers of any age, adults and school children, teenagers and retired persons.
This 'Poku-Mailart'-card was received from Lothar Trott, Switzerland... Thanks for my Japanese friend Ryosuke Cohen who publishes 'Brain Cell 674' Signal's address is on his mail art mailing lists. I love these fantastic pieces of graphic arts, received the first ones from Alexandria in Egypt already in the 60's or 70's. Some mail art work has been received also from friends in Hungary... I'll publish more mail art photos here later !
Abdul Bari reading Signal 62 of 1985 in the "First Great PenFriendship Competition 1987 Faisalabal Pakistan, Peace through Friendship" exhibition.
Abdul, the publisher of The Great, a Pakistani collectors magazine; propably took the Signals 62/1985 and 56/1982 to this exhibition. He sent the photos to me in March 1987.
Unfortunately I could not attend this show myself and therefore I do not know how the Signal succeeded,
did it win any prizes ? In the 80's and 70's the Signal was a GIANT multicolor tabloid...
I've got some 20-30 photos of other Signal readers by the side of their local mail boxes from around the world. Will print them later here for you.
May 18 2007
Vivian like several other Signal readers seems to think that I get the complete email addresses on the top of the Signal form in the "From"-part. Unfortunately that's not the case, what I really do get is: From: "WWW Server" < https@web.saunalahti.fi >, the sender is "WWW Server", not your email address.
Also Vivian's postal address is NOT precise enough to send any snailmail... In what country she lives ?
Let's find it out by searching for "Nicolas" - Google finds about 5,960,000 hits for "Nicolas" with Safesearch on ! Where to send the letters ?
Be careful when sending your penpal ads to the Signal or when sending snailmail letters to anyone.
Without your own clearly written address you'll never get any reply !
Raimo Kaarna, the publisher
Raimo Kaarna, the publisher
The new fine guestbook with 176 fresh penpal listings and photos was lost. The counter stopped counting visits...
18 different test versions of the Signal disappeared ! These had been made using the excellent CMS contents management systems like Drupal, Geeklog, Joomla, Mambo, Nucleus, Postnuke, Wordpress etc etc - all lost ! The tabloid Signal was lost...
Signal's main webserver is in Holland, two other servers are in Finland, and about one hundred "subdomaine" servers are scattered around the world, USA, Russia, China, Morocco, Germany, Switzerland and other countries...
I do not know what happened, what was the reason for this misfortune. Possibly a bad virus even though my own computers have firewalls and excellent virus protection.
I receive some 500 emails EVERY DAY, 90 % of them is spamming, destroying this trash takes anyhow only a few minutes daily. Panda virus software warns about new viruses found in my emails and I send them to Panda to add to their database to protect other computer users. By now I've sent far over 50 different new viruses to Panda.
Well, I had to work a few days harder to recover Signal's website but still some photos are missing, still some links do not work. The work will be continued, so patience please !
- Raimo Kaarna, the publisher
- www.signalpenpals.net
- signal@sci.fi