Hello,

I'm writing to inform you that Host Byte Marketplace (a hosting resource site) invites
you to list your respective company (or the company you work on the behalf) on our web site.
The listing is completely free and offers many benefits.


Firstly, it'll allow your company to add your hosting plans into our database which anyone
can then use our search engine to find and explore your services. Secondly, you can place
any promotional or discount offer you are running in our 'The Lounge' section of our
web site. Thirdly, if you have any news or press release you want to share with the rest
of the community, we will gladly publish it. Again, all this for free.


The directory currently accepts any web vendors that offers the following services:


Application Hosting
Co-location Hosting
Dedicated Hosting
eCommerce Hosting
Managed Hosting
Reseller Hosting


We will be expanding our service categories soon!


On the behalf of Host Byte Marketplace I hope you can spare a few minutes and go to
following web site address and fill out the application form - http://www.hostbyte.com/
The application form link is on the left side of the screen under the section
titled "Web Hoster". If you want the exact url, it is at


http://www.hostbyte.com/myaccount/signup.php


Once your application is processed, we will e-mail you the login details to our
member's area.

Yours Sincerely,


The Host Byte Marketplace Team
http://www.hostbyte.com



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Yep :rolleyes: I got that one too. Just some more "targeted harvesting" of WHT. :eek3:

I got one this evening - about an hour ago. And they used an email address that I only have on the site, hidden in some config variables for the contact form - so these were some busy little harvesters. Working hard for their spam list.

Still...that's another one for the blockers.

Originally posted by living_media
I got one this evening - about an hour ago. And they used an email address that I only have on the site, hidden in some config variables for the contact form - so these were some busy little harvesters. Working hard for their spam list.

Still...that's another one for the blockers.
Yet the funny thing is, is that they're running a hosting directory [like there's a shortage of them :rolleyes:] and the objective of this directory is to promote hosts, yet to promote themselves, they have to spam. :blush:

They don't have to spam, they choose to spam. And they choose to work hard enough to attempt to spam, and they're so sure that it will work, that they went digging through the code on my site to find the email address that they used for me.

Indeed.... :rolleyes:

Originally posted by living_media
They don't have to spam, they choose to spam.
Correct. I should have said "chose to spam". :blush:

It's still ironic that they spam to get business and expect hosts to benefit with increased exposure in their directory?? :rolleyes:

Hi Myacen,

I think Hostbyte will thank you now, since you just helped them spread the SPAM to thousands of other potential readers! :)

I think they may have started spamming because they did post a thread here, and received little response.

I don't know that they realised what they were doing, when they decided to randomly spam a bunch of web hosts (and do the extra legwork required, at least in some cases, to dig out email addresses.)

Originally posted by FHDave
Hi Myacen,

I think Hostbyte will thank you now, since you just helped them spread the SPAM to thousands of other potential readers! :)
Hundreds maybe, but not "thousands". We'll check how many views this forum gets though....;)

44 views so far. :D

Originally posted by Aussie Bob
Yep :rolleyes: I got that one too. Just some more "targeted harvesting" of WHT. :eek3:

Does WHT sell email lists of their members to vendors?

Originally posted by intellec
Does WHT sell email lists of their members to vendors?
Ahhh, no....:eek:

But there's nothing stopping email harvestors from crawling these parts etc....:eek3:

Originally posted by Aussie Bob
Hundreds maybe, but not "thousands". We'll check how many views this forum gets though....;)


It's a figure of speech, just an exageration :)

Originally posted by intellec
Does WHT sell email lists of their members to vendors?

In my particular case, intellec, they came to my site and viewed the source of my contact form and pulled the email address from there. The recipient email address for my particular piece of Hostbyte Spam, I don't have in my WHT profile and have never used on WHT.

Persistent //censored//s...

Originally posted by FHDave
It's a figure of speech, just an exageration :)
I know, I know....hence the -
......;)
:D