If a person who works for a vendor sees me posting something about problem ABC,
and he has a product that will solve problem ABC, then I don't see anything
wrong with him dropping me a single email about it. I probably wouldn't mind a
single phone call as well. If he/she pesters me with multiple emails and phone
calls, that's a different story.
NOW, if a BOT (or human) grabs my email address from a post and sells it to
companies to send multiple, unsolicited emails to me all the time, that's a
different story, as once you go down that slippery slope, it'll never stop.
Curtis Preston | VP Data Protection
GlassHouse Technologies, Inc.
T: +1 760 710 2004 | C: +1 760 419 5838 | F: F: +1 760 710 2009
cpreston AT glasshouse DOT com | www.glasshouse.com
Infrastructure :: Optimized
-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Tim Mooney
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 3:34 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Networker and Data Domain
In regard to: Re: [Networker] Networker and Data Domain, Curtis Preston...:
> It happens all the time. Usually vendors are smart enough not to reply
> to the list. (In this case, the vendor tells me it was an accident that
> he replied to the list.) As long as the vendor doesn't lie and
> misrepresent themselves as a user, or makes "unwelcome advances" to the
> user, I don't have an issue with it.
>
> I would define "unwelcome advances" as anything beyond replying to the
> person's email, such as calling them. If I asked a question and you're
> a vendor, and you just reply to my email and say, "hey, I've got a
> different idea from a competing vendor. If you want to hear about it,
> call me." But if you grab my phone number from my signature and call me
> 20 times, well, that's a different story.
What about spamming them? I get unsolicited email relating to backups,
backup-related software, backup-related hardware, etc. and I'm pretty
certain the vendor has obtained my email address via this list.
These days, when I sign up for something and provide an email address, I
generally use a one-use address, so I know how a spammer got access to the
address. When I signed up for this mailing list originally I used my
direct address because SPAM basically didn't exist, so it's too late for
that here.
Tim
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