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

I hope that whoever is doing this harvesting truly understands that he is doing 
his customers (the vendors he's selling this contact list to) no favors by 
giving them addresses from here. I am open to suggestions about how to identify 
who it might be. ANY proven harvester will be banned from this list immediately.

I would like to apologize to Dan and to anyone else experiencing this for any 
inconvenience it causes. This list is for sharing information and experience, 
not as a source for contact list providers to make money.

Dave Shaw
MAPICS-L Moderator

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mapics-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 5:25 PM
Subject: To those vendors harvesting email addresses from this list...


> <SOAPBOX OPTION(*ON) RANTMODE(*HARSH)>
> 
> 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.
> 
> <SOAPBOX OPTION(*OFF)>
> 
> db