Re: To those vendors harvesting email addresses from this list...

Thanks for confirming my suspicions!

I have noticed the increase in MAPICS related SPAM, oh sorry 'cold sales 
calls/emails'.

Someone did need to say this, thanks.

Funny thing, for many of us, when we post a question on the board asking 
'how can I...', we 
are really asking: "How can I do this without buying something with an 
18+% ALF?!?!?!".

Regards....james




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I have many *choice* words for people who harvest email addresses from 
this
list, send me spam, and then have the #(@$&* gall to call me on the phone.
In my case, I know that somebody is getting the phone number via the email
address domain; I guess the only safe way to communicate on the MAPICS 
list
is to use some anonymous web-based email address.

This is how I know two vendors, Manny Gorrity
[mannygorrity@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] and Susanne States
[sstates@xxxxxxxxxxxx] (S4i Systems, Inc.) are getting my name, email
address, and phone number from a harvester:  I just started in this 
position
two weeks ago and signed up to the MAPICS list at that time.  I have no
prior MAPICS experience.  I have made no other contacts specific to 
MAPICS.
Of course, they usually just deny knowing where they got my contact info
from; "got it from a contact list we purchase", sort of makes them less
culpable in their eyes, I guess.

So, let me be absolutely clear:  Any vendor that sends me unsolicited 
email,
depending on my mood, will probably be out of future consideration.  ANY
VENDOR THAT CALLS ME, UNSOLICITED, WILL GO ON MY PERMANENT BLACKLIST! This
is the pinnacle of inconsideration and unprofessionalism.

Grrrrrrr.

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