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Spammers...
Apr. 3rd, 2007 01:41 pmYesterday, I started getting spams from an event calendar for "ChristianNightlife.com".
The topic was sufficient to push me into doing something I normally can't be bothered to do. I fired up SamSpade and looked up the domain info.
Oh my. The registered address was in Silverton Oregon. A small town not all *that* far away. And there was a contact email address.
I sent an email telling them to cease and desist sending to *all* addresses in my domain and that any future emails would be charged for my time at the rate of $50/hr with a 1 hour minimum.
I replied suggesting that he meant his employee had bought an address list. And went on to point out that most of the addresses were garbled variants of the actual addresses, so he was wasting a lot of people's time. I suggested that he consider "opt-in" mailing lists rather than "opt-out".
Maybe it was a misguided employee, maybe it wasn't. But I hope they'll take the advice to heart.
The topic was sufficient to push me into doing something I normally can't be bothered to do. I fired up SamSpade and looked up the domain info.
Oh my. The registered address was in Silverton Oregon. A small town not all *that* far away. And there was a contact email address.
I sent an email telling them to cease and desist sending to *all* addresses in my domain and that any future emails would be charged for my time at the rate of $50/hr with a 1 hour minimum.
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 03:48:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: "ViennaRocks.US" <vienna_revolution@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: ChristianNightlife.com spams
To: shadow@shadowgard.com
Sorry about that.
Some how my employee got all your email address inserted in the mailer
----- Original Message ----
From: "shadow@shadowgard.com" <shadow@shadowgard.com>
To: brad@99tracks.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 4:40:28 AM
Subject: ChristianNightlife.com spams
You will immediately cease sending spams for ChristianNightlife.com
to *all* addresses in the shadowgard.com domain.
Any such message in the future (or messages from any other domain
registered to you or your company) will result in you being billed
for my time in cleaning them up. At $50 an hour, one hour minimum.
--
Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com
I replied suggesting that he meant his employee had bought an address list. And went on to point out that most of the addresses were garbled variants of the actual addresses, so he was wasting a lot of people's time. I suggested that he consider "opt-in" mailing lists rather than "opt-out".
Maybe it was a misguided employee, maybe it wasn't. But I hope they'll take the advice to heart.
