You can make your own judgement call as to whether you think this is wrong or not, but hostex.com is sending out the following unsolicited email to the clients of other hosts. I consider the use of unsolicited email markting in very bad taste.

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Dear Madam or Sir,

As a person involved in website development you recognize that finding a
good web host offering reasonably priced quality services can be quite
difficult. We believe that offering a combination of quality services,
timely and responsive customer support and good prices is where our company
excels.

HOSTEX ( http://www.hostex.com ) is a flexible company providing quality and
cost effective web hosting solutions with focus on small and medium businesses.

Recently we introduced new service plans offering flexibility, performance and value:

Our plans are:

Basic - $6.95 / month
- 40 Mb of diskspace
- 10 POP3 mailboxes, unlimited aliases, autoresponders
- unlimited ftp accounts, URL protection, shell access and more
- no setup fee

Advanced - $14.95 / month
- 80 Mb of diskspace
- 15 POP3 mailboxes, unlimited aliases, autoresponders
- unlimited ftp accounts, URL protection, shell access
- CGI/SSI scripting (Perl, Python, Tcl)
- PHP4 scripting
- Frontpage 2002 extensions
- Graphical web statistics
- various optional services and more
- no setup fee

Professional - customizable, make-your-own plan
- select only those services that you need

All plans include full 30-day money back guarantee and there is no setup fee.

Services and features associated with your hosting account can be
managed via our easy to use Control Center. Everything is right there at
your finger tips and if you are stuck our customer support team will provide
you with friendly and personal attention 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Please visit http://www.hostex.com for more information.

Sincerely,


Irene Morris
Sales Manager
morris@hostex.com

*********** = known spammers. Contact their upstream provider Exodus.net and report them for spamming (include email message with full headers).

abuse@exodus.net


Spammers:smash:

Originally posted by arfarf
. . . . . . . I consider the use of unsolicited email markting in very bad taste. . . . .I think it's more widely considered SPAM.

Just hope the ad you placed for them doesn't gain them more customers.

I got this email too, twice I think. I just tossed it.

:flamethr: hostex.com

Originally posted by SoftWareRevue
I think it's more widely considered SPAM.

Just hope the ad you placed for them doesn't gain them more customers.

I thought about the free advertising. However, I think they can offer that stuff an half the price and anyone who knows what they're up to wouldn't give it a second thought.

They still spam around, and they are still using EXODUS ... :angry:

nothing like taking a 6 month old thread and bringing it back to life :)

Don't forget to include full mail headers.. :D

Yep, got the same message this morning.

:angry:

Originally posted by thehostworks
nothing like taking a 6 month old thread and bringing it back to life :)

To bring up the fact that they still didnt get cut off by Exodus, get the point now? :uzi:SPAM

I guess Exodus can be considered as Spam-friendly.

I got this email about an hour ago to our IT department generic email address. (my day job)

Time to report.. :P

Just got a SPAM mail from this company, they don´t even tell how much transfer that is included in the packages... ;)

Am I the only one who keeps reading Hotsex.net instead of ***********? Oh well .... a dirty mind is a joy forever :pimp:

I got over 10 of their spam emails.

Originally posted by AS-Mike
Am I the only one who keeps reading Hotsex.net instead of ***********? Oh well .... a dirty mind is a joy forever :pimp:

Subliminal messages, eh? ;)

Originally posted by obviousl
I got this email about an hour ago to our IT department generic email address.

They're sending it to whatever email address you have listed on your domain name in the whois database. I got one this morning too. How thick would you have to be to spam a hosting company with an advert for hosting?