I just received an email/SPAM (see below), and after visiting their website, I noticed that
their "Recommend Us" link, points to a form that allows anyone to send email to anyone
else with whatever content they want in the email. :eek:

http://order.1and1.com/xml/static/friendnotification


From: ****@sbcglobal.net
To: ********@****.net
Subject: Greeting from Me and 1&1 Internet Inc.
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 12:11:57 -0400 (EDT)
Hello!

Me (*****@sbcglobal.net) has just seen 1&1's amazing offers and wants to let you know!

Click here to see it for yourself!
http://www.1and1.com?ac=030061P

Comments from Me:

Hey, look! 1&1 has this cool little referral thing that lets people SPAM YOU.


Are they just desperate for business so they let people spam through their website? :angry:

They will quickly learn the tolerance level of the US datacenters for Spam. They have to buy their bandwidth from someone...;)

Interesting, just goes to show their lack of knowledge. I'm sure that they will get signups from it, but as Watcher said, they'll learn soon enough.

If you search google groups you will see they are known spammers.