Re: Search400 blackmail?

["System Support Products, Inc." <sspi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 3:10 PM -0500 12/15/99, Tim McCarthy wrote:
>I'd be interested in any other software vendors opinion of this item
>received from Search400. Bear in mind that our company is a search400
>customer - we place banner ads with them. Does this not sound like a
>form of blackmail?

    I've been staying out of this discussion until now, but I got FIVE 
of these messages from Search400, and it's just about the last straw 
for me.

    I don't like being threatened by companies that want me to do 
business with them.  It has got to be the stupidest marketing 
approach that I've ever had the displeasure to be on the receiving 
end of.  What kind of relationship are you creating with your 
customer when he buys from you because you have threatened him? 
(Hint: ask Microsoft, many of their customers are now called 
"government witnesses")

    Infringing on registered marks can be a very big mistake, say like 
about $250 an hour...

    Regards,

    - Lou Forlini
      Software Engineer
      System Support Products, Inc.
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