Companies I Hate
I love e-mail. I look forward to checking my accounts every morning. I've discovered a pattern; perhaps it's just a larger signal to noise ratio at play, but I seem to get more unsolicited commercial messages on the weekends. For instance, today I received 81 pieces of electronic garbage. I would like to take this opportunity to publicly humiliate the following companies for blasting me crap that I didn't ask for: 1800Flowers, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, ACDSee and RealOptimizer, CBS SportsLine, America Online, and Discover Card. If any of these companies rented lists to market their tripe to me, their shame should go even deeper. If you know somebody from one of these companies, you might want to tell them that their reputation is getting tarnished. I'm tired of legit businesses thinking they can get away with a single opt-in procedure, or purchasing e-mail addresses that are assumed to be real. If you want to use e-mail to get your message out to people, why not place advertising in existing publications? MORONS!
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at 3:17am
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Anonymous
June 26th, 2002
at 12:32am
Spam is bad. I get over 200 spams every 2 hours. It just plain sucks.
/e
http://www.evankinney.com/
Anonymous
June 26th, 2002
at 12:50am
You poor baby.Sick Sprocket on them !
Anonymous
June 26th, 2002
at 12:50am
No,bad idea ! He might start humping them too ! :P
Anonymous
June 26th, 2002
at 2:13am
Have you realized you have damaged Sprocket's Reputation? Whenever anyone talks about Sprocket they are gonna think “The Humping Dog” Does he have any chances with the female dogs anymore? I think not
/Scott
Anonymous
June 26th, 2002
at 8:18am
Not that Sprocket had a reputation. Anyway, him humping spammers might not be a bad idea for your Geocities page.
hmmmm….
Anonymous
June 26th, 2002
at 2:47pm
whats wrong with humping? thats a reptation i dont mind :-)
Anonymous
June 26th, 2002
at 8:23pm
spamming sucks, plain and simple, when ever i get spam, which is very little now (proof my idea works), i spam that email with so much crap, and i send emails to the company, man i make a Sean, then i never get an email from them again
Anonymous
June 27th, 2002
at 3:58am
Maybe I would like SpamGourmet
http://spamgourmet.com/
better than spams.
Anonymous
June 27th, 2002
at 8:13pm
I get hardly any spam on the weekends. All on the weekdays. I'd love to choke the {scambled message} who allow this throughout their companies.
Anonymous
June 28th, 2002
at 11:41am
You have succesfully humiliated them Chris. Job well done.
Your next mission is like what others have said: Sick Sprocket on them and let them do there worst.