 | | | Email Harvesting by First Albany Capital | Email Harvesting by First Albany Capital 2006-11-01 - By Stephen John Smoogen
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On 11/1/06, Post, Mark K <mark.post@(protected)> wrote:
> I don't know if I'm unique in this, but I just received an email about
> participating in a zoomerang.com survey. I can only imagine that
> someone at First Albany Capital harvested my email address from one or
> more of the mailing lists I subscribe to. I sent the originator, one
> Brian Wallins, the following reply, and recommend that anyone else who
> received an invitation do likewise:
>
> Harvesting email addresses and using them, even for a survey such as
> this, is not an acceptable practice. I won't be responding to the
> survey. If I receive another such invitation from you or anyone else at
> your company, I will be filing an abuse complaint with your ISP as well
> as whomever I can figure out is in a management position at your
> company. I am also going to recommend that everyone on the various Red
> Hat mailing lists do the same.
>
Thats cool. less people mean more likely I get the Ipod :)
Right and that free bottle of wine will be appearing at my door anyday now too.
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Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"
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