I see this statement every so often, and frankly, I don't buy it.
If I sign up for a product registration with one of your partners, it
should not be my burden to be sure your partners don't use it for spam
and don't give it to you for spam (and, yes, it's still spam in that
situation). It's YOUR burden to ensure that you're not sending
advertisements to anyone who doesn't want them. It's not their burden
to ask to be taken off of a list they didn't want to be on in the first
place.
Any service sending ads that doesn't regularly ask "still want to be on
our list?" and automatically unsubscribe anyone who doesn't positively
respond, has no business saying that they're not sending spam.
On Aug 11, 2006, at 7:57 PM, Genutrust wrote:
Just a quick note. I am from Genutrust.com. We do not harvest any
information, nor do we send spam email. If your user was on our list,
it is
because she subscribed through one of our partners. It is very easy to
unsubscribe at genutrust.com/trust . It would be impossible to get all
the
information we have on our subscribers if they did not provide it to
us.
Also regarding the message about using our CPU cycles, we are not
concerned
with this, as we are not spammers and only send about 250,000 messages
daily. Thanks.
Chris Santerre wrote:
One of our users received a spam today from genutrust .com, URL in
spam
CHICHIMECA .COM
This spam was VERY targeted. User's first and last name, complete
address,
and her phone number. She informed me her phone number was listed with
initials of her and her husband, not her full name. So she has no idea
where
they got this info.
It was already caught as spam, but it definetly has the user a bit
nervous.
Looks like the targeted spams to bypass bayes filters is on the rise.
Anyone else see one of these from genutrust?
Chris Santerre
SysAdmin and SARE/URIBL ninja
http://www.uribl.com
http://www.rulesemporium.com
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