glenster Posted August 13, 2003 Posted August 13, 2003 Today I received an email from a fellow in the marketing department of ADDR.com offering me a free *year* of hosting - with no strings attached! It's spam, to be sure, but he went to some trouble to show that he had actually visited my site. Needless to say, I have absolutely *no* interest in ever moving from TCH, but I do wonder if anyone else has received a similar offer? TCH is the best - why look anywhere else? Rock Sign Glen Quote
TCH-JimE Posted August 13, 2003 Posted August 13, 2003 (edited) Glen, 1) Nothing is ever free 2) You don't have to visit a website to send someone a email, its possible to do it via automated scripts 3) If there service was so much better then total choice hosting, why would they offer it free to you? Total Choice Hosting Rocks, and the competition want a slice of our success, which is just blantly not going to happen! Jim Edited August 13, 2003 by Jimuni Quote
glenster Posted August 13, 2003 Author Posted August 13, 2003 I quite agree - the "personalized" info was harvested by a spider. I'd much rather pay my pittance to TCH and get reliable, fast hosting than pay nothing and get... probably nothing! Rock Sign Quote
Head Guru Posted August 13, 2003 Posted August 13, 2003 Report him! I hate spammers. http://www.spamcop.com Senders of UCE are filthy animals, they cost TCH more money than I care to discuss. Just go report him, email him back and inform him you have done so. oh, and send your email back to him/her with a...... Have a nice day! Quote
surefire Posted August 14, 2003 Posted August 14, 2003 I used to use spamcop all the time, but it seems that they are getting softer in their approach to reporting spam to isp's. Quote
leezard Posted August 14, 2003 Posted August 14, 2003 I started using mailwasher, i just boune every piece of spam mail i get back to the sender, after a whle they give up. Quote
Guest steveoregon Posted August 14, 2003 Posted August 14, 2003 Interestingly enough, I had a website on addr not too long ago - for a couple of years. I never had any problems and never really needed tech support. HOWEVER, I then started looking at some of web review sites and discovered some disturbing things about addr. Because of what I discovered, I left. Didn’t want to wait until I needed support. The only reason I chose them in the beginning was because they offered the use of their subdomain for my site, which allowed me some anonymity. However, since then, I’ve learned much more about private registrations using a real domain. Check out addr's BBB rating and some reivews to see what I mean: http://www.webhostingratings.com/plans/Addr_com.html http://www.denver.bbb.org/commonreport.htm...0167&national=Y Not a pretty picture. Quote
tattoovampire Posted August 15, 2003 Posted August 15, 2003 I started using mailwasher, i just boune every piece of spam mail i get back to the sender, after a whle they give up. What is the spammer is using a bogus email address, as 90% of them seem to do? Quote
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