[aclug-L] Re: FW: , Please help save SaturdaySale computer sale

[Chris Owen <owenc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, James O. Harms wrote:

>
> Dale W Hodge wrote:
> > >
> > > Perhaps I'm not clearly explaining myself.  I never asked to be added to
> > > any list, I've never been to the Saturday and in fact had never heard of
> > > the Saturday sale before I got their first spam.  I wouldn't be
> > > complaining about unsolicited email if I had solicited it.
> >
> > Ah, that explaination makes a difference!
> >
> > Maybe someone thought they were doing you a favor and gave them your email
> > address?  I pretty sure they don't just blanket spam, or I would have seen
> > messages at all my email addresses instead of just the one I subscribed.
>
> Most of us who frequent the SaturdaySale find it helpful to know who
> plans to be at the next sale, and perhaps something about what they
> have to sell.  For us, the mailings are information - not spam.  The
> explanation Dale gave - someone probably signed you up thinking they
> were doing you a favor - is most likely what happened.  I have been
> assured by the promoters that these mailings only go to those who
> request them. --joh

Anything is possible but at the time I started getting them:

1) I didn't live in Wichita
2) I'd never been a Saturday sale or knew anyone who had
3) I really didn't know anyone in Wichita
4) I'd never really used the email address that they were sending to

Additionally, I just went back to confirm this, but I didn't just get one
copy of their emails but rather 5. Each was addressed to a different
sales@domain address.  None of these email addresses had ever been used
(and in fact weren't really valid email addresses which is how they all
got in my mailbox).

The addresses had clearly been web scrapped.  All of the domain names were
customers whose sites we host that happen to have the word "Wichita" on
their pages.  Most were not Wichita businesses and don't do business in
Wichita.

I'm reasonably certain that they addresses in question were all web
scrapped.  One in particular almost had to be.  We host a customer at
gardencity.net/theirname/.  Their email address is theirname@xxxxxxxxx.
Yet I got a "personalized" email to sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx that was
customized for the customer "Dear Theirname...".

I don't think there is any question that this is spam.

Chris

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