dherman76
11-25-2002, 10:53 PM
Is this considered spam?
If company X is running a promotion and wants to find all of the baseball teams on the internet to email, can they search a search-engine, look up the WHOIS and then email or mail all of the companies after they've gathered the information about the promotion or to lead them into their program?
-Darren
dherman76
11-25-2002, 10:56 PM
But how does this differ than just walking into a store (obviously offline) and selling your product to the manager/owner?
filburt1
11-25-2002, 11:36 PM
You're only allowed to use WHOIS information to contact the hostmaster regarding the domain name, or at least not use it for unsolicited purposes.
dherman76
11-25-2002, 11:37 PM
How about going to a website and looking up the sales/biz dev/webmaster then emailing them for your product/service?
filburt1
11-25-2002, 11:39 PM
Personally I'd consider it spam if I got it. I could just as easily found your company on the Internet and contacted you instead.
dherman76
11-25-2002, 11:40 PM
There's got to be a legit way to do this...
filburt1
11-25-2002, 11:42 PM
Usually when you think "there must be a legal way", then there probably is, just not a moral way.
ZiCmaN
11-25-2002, 11:42 PM
Originally posted by dherman76
But how does this differ than just walking into a store (obviously offline) and selling your product to the manager/owner?
Well with that logic, why wouldn't everyone just think alike and do that for each and every product that they want to share - SELL?
I understand your thoughts, but it is SPAM.
Probably what these ******** think also (not that you're an *******, but they are!):
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dherman76
11-25-2002, 11:46 PM
hehe, i see what you're saying..
beowulfdk
11-25-2002, 11:49 PM
Yep. OPT-IN is NOT spam, but whether you use a script/program to automatically collect email adresse from the web or you grab them manually from potentially client websites - that is NOT OPT-IN! They did not REQUEST / ALLOW you to email them business offers/ads.
ZiCmaN
11-25-2002, 11:58 PM
Yeah, I didn't realize how bad it really was until I purchased, some type of email spyder that worked like a charm to pull email addresses. As I collected and collected, it came to my attention that it was just that >>> :spam: <<<<!
Needless to say, I didn't send anything and also DID NOT GET MY $$$$$$$$$$ back from the retailer. So for many reasons, :spam: has left a bad taste in my mouth! FIGHT IT!!!
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