RE: [cobalt-users] IPO?

["Dan" <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> one of the cobalt VARs in South Africa has taken it upon
> themselves to Spam a
> huge amount of people with advertising (myself 4 times), mail to
> them or their
> internet provider (who it turns out is the same company trading under
> different names) just bounces.  I then thought the right place to
> take this to
> is abuse@xxxxxxxxxx, sales@xxxxxxxxxx - this is a while ago, I
> think abuse@
> bounced and sales@ went to the bit bucket.  A company on the
> verge of a IPO
> should know of better than to ignore complaints about their VARs.
>
> any and everyone that asks me if they should buy a cobalt machine
> (and there
> are lots of them) gets told by me to absolutely avoid it at all costs, a
> company who doesnt do pre sales support (yes, this is a pre-sales
> becuase i
> would have had an interest in buying from a local VAR) isnt worth doing
> business with - regardless of their product.
>
>
>
What would Cobalt do about this? I'm sure they have a contract with that
reseller that doesn't mention Spam since Cobalt isn't selling Internet
access, just hardware. Do you think their supplier of lightbulbs would stop
selling to them is they sent Spam advertising lightbulbs?
Submit them to the RBL. http://www.mail-abuse.org/rbl/
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Dan Kriwitsky