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January 21, 2005
Spam is not the answer
Spam is not the answer to anything. Especially if you are running a legit business. That's why I am answering all German Spam-Mails where I can clearly tell who the author was (I am using TFFFFF as the German template for that).
But this time I was really amazed: I received an unsolicited email for a Content-Management-System called xnetcreate. The sender was net-DESIGN - Der InternetPartner and they replied promptly to my nice mail. They claimed the unsolicited mail came due to an error in their Newsletter program. That's one of the lames excuses I've ever heard - how come my email-address is in their system, when I never had any dealings with them? The only answer is address-harvesting and that's illegal already (if it isn't it should be!).
That alone would be funny, but it get's even better: In the footer of the "We are so sorry we spammed you"-Mail there is a link to a webcam in the office of net-DESIGN! So take a look, if you want to see a spammer in it's natural habitat:
net-design-WebCam
Addendum: Today I got another "We are sorry"-Mail, which was sent to all that have been spammed. Strangly they still blame somebody else (which they do not name) and say it was a technical problem. And no explanation whatsoever how my email-address got in their list in the first place...
Next Update:
Today I received another response - this time from net-DESIGN's attorney! This is the first time someone properly answers my TFFFFF ;) You can download the PDF here (in German).
I am curious if this is a special treatment for me, or if other people also get that nice letter ... e.g. Jan.
Posted by marco at January 21, 2005 2:17 PM in Category
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Krasser Scheiß! :)
Posted by: Mon | January 25, 2005 9:37 AM