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I say spam like this from a web hosting company is very
unprofessional, and should not be lightly slapped on the hand. Your thoughts may
sound good, but suppose, they took ALL of your clients, the foodbank did well,
but what about you? You would lose your business, and i guess you could then go
to the foodbank and recover something to eat while waiting in the unemployment
line. If one company us allowed to spam, then all would.
My 2 cents worth.
David
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 12:34
AM
Subject: [cobalt-users] Spam by
Communitech?!
Given the recent discussion of the varying TOS relating to sale
of spamware, I think the following info, while not completely on topic,
is relevent.
I (and about a half-dozen of my customers) have received
spam from the Communitech sales department in the last week, inviting me to
switch my website to their servers. I have never had *any* communication
with them prior to this, and from the remove instructions on their email, it's
pretty clear that they stole Network Solutions handle database. So, in my
book, by their upstream's definition, and by their own TOS, it's clearly spam,
and clearly a TOS violation. It's also, in my book, tacky to be trying
to steal my customers by stealing NSI's lists to get their addresses.
I've already sent abuse complaints to all of their upstreams... but it
is unlikely that these providers will cancel a lucrative T3 agreement over one
small incident -- which, in my book, is unfortunate.
However,
there's a better idea I had, based on a suggestion on one of the anti-spam
sites I saw. I have encouraged Communitech to make a $500 contribution
to their local food bank, and to also make a contribution equal to 25% of the
first year's revenues from any business obtained from their spamfest. It
will be interesting to see what kind of response I get. But if anyone
else has received a similar mail from them, maybe pressure from a few folks
will encourage them to turn a despicable act into something positive.
Here's an abbreviated version of the spam I received (and I got
several copies, with the names of several different salespeople, so it wasn't
one isolated bad apple.) If anyone wants the whole thing, email me
offlist and I'll forward it.
Am I reading too much into this, or is
this one of the bigger examples of corporate stupidity that's been observed
recently?
Comments appreciated.
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Dear Chip
White,
My name is Brently Gasper and I am a sales representative at
CommuniTech.Net.
I am contacting about your exciting website at www.awhw.com.
I wanted to introduce our
organization, CommuniTech.Net
(http://www.communitech.net). CommuniTech.Net
is a top rated webhosting company,
servicing over 25,000 websites
worldwide, and I have been authorized to make a
special, one-time offer to
you. First, let me give you some information
about our webhosting
plans:
( Selling job snipped)
My special offer to you is that I
can provide you with an extra month of service on a
3 month plan, and 3
extra months of service on a 6 month term! Just use the promotion
code
"FREEMONTHS" when placing an order online at http://www.communitech.net/order/
Finally,
we are having a contest throughout the month of June. If you purchase a
new webhosting account in June, you will be entered into a drawing for a
brand new 2000
Chrysler PT Cruiser! More information on this contest can
be found on our website at
http://www.communitech.net/contest/.
(More promotional crap snipped)
I apologize if this
e-mail has offended you. If you wish to not
receive any more emails from
me, visit http://offers.communitech.net/remove.php3?handle=CW3162
and
I will not e-mail you again. Otherwise, I hope to hear from you
soon!
Sincerely,
Brently Gasper
Sales
Representative
b_gasper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.communitech.net/
PS.
CommuniTech.Net also provides dedicated servers on the Cobalt RaQ, Sun, and
Intel
platforms on UNIX and Windows platforms for as low as $208.53/month.
I would be happy to
assist you in moving to a dedicated hosting platform
and/or answer any questions you might
have about dedicated
servers!
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