Re: Stopping win-26[.]com text spam?
To be fair, win-26.us != win-26.com ... From: Aaron C. de Bruyn via VoiceOps [mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2026 10:43 To: Peter Beckman Cc: voiceops@voiceops.org Subject: [VoiceOps] Re: Stopping win-26[.]com text spam? Hey Peter, On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 2:10 PM Peter Beckman <beckman@angryox.com> wrote: Also win-26.com seems to have been scooped up and none of the links I could find even work anymore... At the risk of triggering more spam, here's one that was sent to me: win-26[.]us/l7BnN8 Are they still sending out texts with a bad URL in them??? No, the URLs were always correct. I just changed it to [.] to avoid spam filtering or someone accidentally clicking the links. -A
*facepalm* Oops--that was a typo on my part. Multiple times. It's ".us" in all the links. To think that I started my career back in the 90s doing tech support and we joked about everyone over 50 not understanding domains: "Just go to example.net" "You mean example.net.com?" Anyways, not a single text message since ~Friday at 1 PM. Either they are taking the weekend off, or someone dealt with the problem. -A On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 4:47 PM Nathan Anderson via VoiceOps < voiceops@voiceops.org> wrote:
To be fair, win-26*.us* != win-26*.com* ...
*From:* Aaron C. de Bruyn via VoiceOps [mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org] *Sent:* Friday, February 20, 2026 10:43 *To:* Peter Beckman *Cc:* voiceops@voiceops.org *Subject:* [VoiceOps] Re: Stopping win-26[.]com text spam?
Hey Peter,
On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 2:10 PM Peter Beckman <beckman@angryox.com> wrote:
Also win-26.com seems to have been scooped up and none of the links I could find even work anymore...
At the risk of triggering more spam, here's one that was sent to me:
win-26[.]us/l7BnN8
Are they still sending out texts with a bad URL in them???
No, the URLs were always correct. I just changed it to [.] to avoid spam filtering or someone accidentally clicking the links.
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