Stephanie,
There is a difference between illegal and immoral, right? There is also
a difference between "against the law" and "against good business
practice."
The site I referenced you to is a "spammer site," which -- although spam
steals bandwidth and server space whenever and wherever it is sent -- is
not illegal.
But those who spam, and those associated with with spammers, do end up
with a lot of "just plain people" and MIS professionals hating them.
And one thing that can be done as a consequence of that anger & hatred
is that filters are put into place.
Many ISPs don't use filters, but many do. AOL is notorious for setting
in filters, and I'm certain that other web-based portals are setting
them in also ... much like Yahoo! splits mail between "mail" and "junk
mail."
That's why I wrote to *warn* your company that your service was being
used by a spammer.
If WebTrends wants to remain associated with spam sites, go for it. But
if you find yourselves blocked from IPs in future, don't say I didn't
warn you.
Your option, your choice, your consequences.
Sincerely,
l.d.
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On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 15:58:10 -0700, Stephanie Bridges wrote:
> Hello,
> The site you are referencing below is currently using our hosted web
> analytics service, WebTrends Live. We are in no way affiliated with them.
> Unless a site is proven to be doing illegal activity we are not in the
> practice of disabling their account.
> Regards,
> Stephanie Bridges
> eServices Product Manager
> NetIQ Software
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www.webtrendslive.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: L.D. Best
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 6/26/01 1:29 PM
> Subject: Fw: Serious Money Machine - requires NO selling!
> I would like you to reconsider your affiliation
> with one specific webpage, and a certain type of
> webpage.
> Your current "siteID=62336" is guilty of
> spamming, but worse still is targeting people
> who are ignorant of certain legal restrictions
> and putting at risk the retirement income of
> their suckers. In other words, the people who
> can most be hurt by the site's bally-hoo are the
> ones being targetted by the site design.
> I don't think that any legit outfit would want
> to be linked -- in *any* way -- to a site like
> that. Check it out for yourself, and remember
> that I wouldn't be writing you if I hadn't
> gotten their spam and gone to their nameless
> site and found your link.
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