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05-16-2007, 09:48 PM #26Web Hosting Master
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You harvested addresses from WHT
Then you spammed
It's cut and dry
I hope your business succeeds however you'll need to change your advertising tactics fast. You could be a great bunch of guys & gals, but if you're spamming you'll aggravate a lot of people which will result in things like what you're facing now in this thread.
Good luck & don't spam again. Spam = bad.EuroVPS VPS Hosting - Virtual Private Servers | Web Hosting | Dedicated Servers
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05-16-2007, 10:08 PM #27Disabled
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05-17-2007, 12:34 AM #29Temporarily Suspended
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05-17-2007, 06:08 AM #30Aspiring Evangelist
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Am I the only one who finds this unbelieveable?
This isn't advertising it's SPAM. I have a sent a abuse email too with the headers from your emails.
Take our emails (and others who you have harvested off WHT) off your list now. I am not interested in your services and never will be now. Strange you don't seem to be able to apologise.
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05-17-2007, 07:11 PM #31WHT Addict
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I take unsolicited advertising as a spam. Perhaps, you should stop doing it all before someone takes you into court.
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05-17-2007, 07:13 PM #32Invented the Internet
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05-19-2007, 12:58 PM #33WHT Addict
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We've also been getting spam from these guys. I don't mind you sending a single email to us inquiring if we want your services but sending it to every email address you can find is not acceptable.
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05-19-2007, 01:04 PM #34Junior Guru
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Wow, and I thought I was the only one who got spammed by them about 3 days back ...
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05-19-2007, 01:08 PM #35WHT Addict
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I think hostechsupport has finally got a free publicity here - not a good one.
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05-19-2007, 03:09 PM #36Junior Guru
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We've been spammed a few times by these guys too. The next one gets reported to every spam blacklist I know of.
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05-20-2007, 01:02 AM #37Newbie
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Why does he still have an account here?
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05-22-2007, 10:38 AM #38Web Hosting Master
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You are spamming, ONE EMAIL IS SPAM IF IT IS UNSOLICITED. Not only that you sent the same message to 3 addresses of ours including our abuse address which automatically opens tickets and pages technicians. That means 5+ people then got SMS messages to their phones so yea you are spamming people.
Not only is it an unethical way to get business, but it is against SPAM laws and against WHM rules.
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05-22-2007, 12:46 PM #39learning is in the doing
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05-22-2007, 12:47 PM #40Invented the Internet
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05-22-2007, 03:59 PM #41Web Hosting Master
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05-22-2007, 04:21 PM #42Aspiring Evangelist
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Although I am not a fan of spam either I just thought it would be nice to clarify the rules behing spam:
These rules are copy and pasted right of FCC.gov and are the spam rules. Also, sounds like what they over looked is the "opt out" or unsubscribe link.
The FTC’s rules require:
Identification – Unsolicited commercial e-mail sent to non-wireless accounts must be clearly identified as a solicitation or advertisement for products or services.
Offering a Way to Reject Future Messages – Commercial e-mail senders must provide easily-accessible, legitimate ways for recipients to reject future messages from that sender.
Return Address – All commercial e-mail, and e-mail considered transactional and relationship messages (about existing transactions), must contain legitimate return e-mail addresses, as well as the sender’s postal address.
Subject Lines – Commercial e-mail senders must use subject lines that are accurate. Using misleading or bogus subject lines to trick readers into opening messages is prohibited.
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05-22-2007, 04:28 PM #43Invented the Internet
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05-22-2007, 05:14 PM #44Web Hosting Master
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05-22-2007, 06:07 PM #45WHT Addict
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I assume there is no "unsubscribe" option from the "spams" that he sent. Also no disclaimer saying "you are receiving this because you are a member of WHT and we have opted you to subscribe to our spam list using every e-mail address that you have". spam spam spam. a spam.
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05-22-2007, 06:48 PM #46ex. *** *****
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How does one actually harvest email addresses from a forum? Does disabling the following make it not possible?
From time to time, the administrators may want to send you email notices.
If you do not want to receive these notices, disable this option.
You can allow other members to send you email messages.
Receive Email from Other Members
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05-22-2007, 06:49 PM #47ex. *** *****
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By the way stuff like this is better put in the "Lounge" IMO, more people read it.
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05-22-2007, 07:32 PM #49learning is in the doing
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That may be true and from a Legal standpoint, I can see where having a copy of Spam sent using the WHT eMail options would be a good thing. In a real World situation though, being as there are thousands of Members and potential eMail addresses, I would think one would use a script / program to either: download all Member related Web pages or just grab the available eMail addresses listed. Then use their own script and resources to send out the Spam.
That way, not only is it faster, it's also easy to say they didn't harvest the eMail address(s) from WHT.
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05-22-2007, 09:03 PM #50Aspiring Evangelist
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