Re: [cobalt-users] IPO?

["abc-123.net" <abc-123@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well,
    It has been a long time, but finally someone has done something that is
really stupid. Sent email to this list and it is going back to them, and
they have a autoresponder turned on. So watch all of the email come  now.

David

----- Original Message -----
From: Dan <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 6:44 AM
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] IPO?


> > 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/
> --
> Dan Kriwitsky
> 
>
>
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