For what it is worth, Jason, I receive some bussiness related emails, probably sent using the method you described. I discard most, read some, and investigated one or two. I never felt pasionately upset about them. (However, I suspect that your method might be finetuned a bit :-) If you want to, I'm game to discuss that off-list.)
rgds Jaco On 31 Oct 2003 at 12:12, Jason Greenwood wrote: > I was not going to fuel the fire any more but I feel I must interject. > It is NOT the same as a spambot, I went looking for companies IN the > line of business we are in, I didn't just send email to random > addresses...spammers send mail to any and every address they can > harvest, regardless of relevance. Also, our service is b2b, not b2c, a > very big distinction from normal "spam." > > Cheers > > Jason > > David Kirk wrote: > > >Yuri wrote: > > > > > > > >>Please consider the idea that there is a difference. > >>I would never condone spamming of any kind, I just don't > >>believe the case cited by Jason was spamming. > >> > >> > > > >If it was unsolicited and it was commercial and it was e-mail then it is UCE > >also known as SPAM. > > > >Maybe if Jason's company has had previous dealings with these people and he > >is offering them some related service, then it might be ok. Looking them up > >in the yellow pages is just a manual way of doing what other spammers do > >automatically. > > > > > >Later > > > >David Kirk > > > > > > > > > > > >
