adrian5750
New Member
HI Folks
Apologies if this is the wrong place to post this - if it needs to be moved to a different section please feel free....
Anyway - don't you just love being spammed by people who've harvested email addresses at random, and are trying to sell you stuff that you don;t want or need ?
Even better when the spammers are themselves web-design companies - like the communication I had today from the Cork-based Dragnet Systems.
"Dear Business Owner,
>
> I am pleased to attach some information relating to our company.
>
> We have been providing web design and development services throughout
> Ireland and the U.K. for over 10 years ..."
and so on. I replied to the effect that I'd been in web design longer than they had - and gave them a list of my own & my clients domains - inviting them not to spam these domains also....
Amazingly - this reply came back....
=====================================================
Hi Adrian,
Thanks for your mail. Please note that the email you received was a
legitimate business to business information
communication, not classified as spam under EU regulations.
=======================================================
Can this be true? Has somebody passed a law that says 'b2b spam is perfectly fine & OK', while I wasn't looking ..?
I'd hate to think I'd accused these nice people of being spammers if they're actually innocent - somebody please put me straight <g>
Thanks
Adrian
Apologies if this is the wrong place to post this - if it needs to be moved to a different section please feel free....
Anyway - don't you just love being spammed by people who've harvested email addresses at random, and are trying to sell you stuff that you don;t want or need ?
Even better when the spammers are themselves web-design companies - like the communication I had today from the Cork-based Dragnet Systems.
"Dear Business Owner,
>
> I am pleased to attach some information relating to our company.
>
> We have been providing web design and development services throughout
> Ireland and the U.K. for over 10 years ..."
and so on. I replied to the effect that I'd been in web design longer than they had - and gave them a list of my own & my clients domains - inviting them not to spam these domains also....
Amazingly - this reply came back....
=====================================================
Hi Adrian,
Thanks for your mail. Please note that the email you received was a
legitimate business to business information
communication, not classified as spam under EU regulations.
=======================================================
Can this be true? Has somebody passed a law that says 'b2b spam is perfectly fine & OK', while I wasn't looking ..?
I'd hate to think I'd accused these nice people of being spammers if they're actually innocent - somebody please put me straight <g>
Thanks
Adrian