Re: Email Harvesting by First Albany Capital

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 13:58:35 -0500, Post, Mark K wrote:

> I don't know if I'm unique in this, but I just received an email about
> participating in a zoomerang.com survey.  I can only imagine that
> someone at First Albany Capital harvested my email address from one or
> more of the mailing lists I subscribe to.  I sent the originator, one
> Brian Wallins, the following reply, and recommend that anyone else who
> received an invitation do likewise:
> 
> Harvesting email addresses and using them, even for a survey such as
> this, is not an acceptable practice.  I won't be responding to the
> survey.  If I receive another such invitation from you or anyone else at
> your company, I will be filing an abuse complaint with your ISP as well
> as whomever I can figure out is in a management position at your
> company.  I am also going to recommend that everyone on the various Red
> Hat mailing lists do the same.

You're not alone.

Especially questionable is the sender name they've chosen. In most
mail user agents it is displayed as

  From: Red Hat User Survey
  Subject: Red Hat vs. Oracle: Red Hat User Survey

which gives the impression that it is an official survey conducted by Red
Hat or authorized by Red Hat. Kind of lame is to send HTML mail. And
it's impolite opt-out spam.

What makes me wonder is where they've collected the addresses? It must
have been a different list, since the subscriber list of taroon-list is
private, and I haven't posted to this list for a long time.

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