Did you miss anything? Yes! Sys-Con is one of the biggest hypocritical
spammers out there. Even if you forgive them for what they did with
CFDJ, they are still a horrible, horrible company. Once you get on one
of their mailing lists, there is NO way off of it. I started noticing
that even though I unsubscribed to every one of their emails, I was
still getting traffic. After some googling of this phenomenon, I found
that there are hundreds of people out there in the same boat. They
totally ignore your unsubscribe requests.
What they have is one giant master mailing list, and everyone who has
even given them an email address is in it. When they go to send out spam
("promotions" in their vocabulary), they often provide unsubscribe
links, but those links only unsubscribe you from the *current*
promotion. Your email address is never removed from the master list.
They use that list to create hundreds of promotion lists and don't care
whether you are on it or not.
I wrote to at least 15 people at sys-con.com asking for help, but not a
SINGLE person responded. Two of the 15 were dead addresses, but the rest
all made it successfully to a person. Or, well, I should say that it
appears to be a person. Another blogger wrote that the email addresses
for staff are bogus. Anything with only a first name (i.e., john@,
suzy@, etc) is bogus, while the staffers all hide behind full email
addresses like john.doe@ and [EMAIL PROTECTED] So you're not likely to get a
human anyhow. Phone calls to the company aren't returned. Threats and
hate mail to the sales force aren't returned. Blogging about their
deceptive and hypocritical techniques seems not to faze them. All in
all, I think they could care less what the rest of the world thinks
about them as long as they have 100,000 email addresses in their
possession (how they get their circulation numbers).
I have personally stopped every subscription I have to every sys-con
media, and I will never do business with them again. I have also blocked
their IP at the firewall level, and sent numerous complaints to CAUCE
and other anti-spam organizations to try and get them on a blacklist.
They are, IMHO, one of the worst spammers out there.
And if you think I'm exaggerating at all, trust me, I'm not scratching
the surface. They are SCUM.
thanks,
bruce
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