Remember this, and this? It appears that DominoFiles have a booth at Lotusphere and I think I am going to have a face-to-face talk with them :-).
Should I care anymore about spam like this or does Ed have a good point?
Update 1
And five minutes ago another one:
Update 2
I just spoke with Jack Robinson of DominoFiles on the telephone and he tells me that they don't send unsolicited emails. He did emphasize that they are an "IBM Business Partner" several times and that all I needed to do was unsubscribe on the link in the SPAM message. I referred him to this blog posting for which he replied "I don't deal with bloggers and that no one has ever complained about our emails". He also wasn't very friendly and became extremely defensive when I challenged him on how he got my email address. Need I say more?
Update 3
And now another one at 2:22PM PST.
Update 4
A birdie just told me that many IBM Business Partners share lead lists with eachother and that they have their own lead sharing "club". Does anybody care to guess who DominoFiles is associated with?
Comment posted by Chris Whisonant01/11/2007 10:52:11 AM
Homepage: http://cwhisonant.blogspot.com
I hate spam! In fact, I'm on the phone with support this very minute dealing with some issues with our Barracuda. There is just so much sheer junk that people send. In the "good old days" of spam we would just get offers to buy stuff. But now a lot of it is just really random. It's clogging up servers and is stupid.
Oh this is too funny - my conversation with Cuda tech support:
Cuda: All of your messages are getting an "unable to connect" message.
Me: What is it trying to connect to?
Cuda: 127.0.0.1
Me: It shouldn't be failing on that, right?
Cuda: I don't know - that's the error
Me: Why is it failing on trying to connect to itself? That's the loopback address!
Good grief...
Anyway, have fun with your face-to-face! You shouldn't have to blacklist their domain - they should just stop sending you stuff.
Comment posted by JY01/11/2007 05:48:30 PM
I've received the same email from ""DominoFiles.com"<dominofiles1@dfmktg.com>"
ahhhhhhhhhh
JYR
Comment posted by Stuart McIntyre01/12/2007 05:27:57 AM
Homepage: http://macsfacts.vox.com
Bruce, whilst I don't doubt that some disreputable Business Partners may share lists and send SPAM in quantity, there are after all many hundreds of thousands of partners worldwide.
Please don't tar us all with the same brush...
Stuart
Comment posted by Bruce01/12/2007 05:55:00 AM
@Stuart,
Understood and I had no intentions of painting "all" BP's in this way.
Comment posted by Christopher Byrne01/12/2007 05:59:39 AM
Homepage: http://www.controlscaddy.com/
Manual Trackback:
"There are discussions going on in the Lotus blogging world about SPAM. The basic question posed by "ed underscore brill AT us d0t ibm nospam d0t com" (aka Ed Brill") is whether or not people should be concerned about posting their email addresses on web sites, since spammers are going to get it. Ed feels that it should be a moot point because anti-spam technologies are getting so much better, but alas I think he is missing some very important points here that need to be considered. And these points tie directly into Bruce Elgort's frustrations with DominoFiles.com's bad spammer habits. The bottom line, it is not really about SPAM, it is about PRIVACY concerns."
Full post at http://www.controlscaddy.com/A55A69/bccaddyblog.nsf/plinks/CBYE-6XDHJW
Comment posted by Jerry Ober01/12/2007 09:33:41 AM
@Chris Byrne,
I could not agree more! Well said! We get about 500K emails a day at the company I work for. 90% + of them are spam, yeah 90% +.
Comment posted by Chris Toohey01/12/2007 01:40:41 PM
Homepage: http://www.dominoguru.com
My $.02US:
#1, a certain IBM Business Partner that I was working for at the time received a DominoFiles.com-logo adorn Wall-mount clock, and I went NUTS explaining to them that "when they lay with dogs, they'll end up with flees" - all to no avail.
#2, I was working the booth at LS2K5 when I got an email from these bastards. I went up to their booth and scolded them. They gave me the same story. I had him go into their DB and unsub my contact information. I had tried their "unsub" links in the past and STILL got their damned spam. I continued to go off - very loudly - and stormed off. I didn't make it back to my booth before I had yet another SPAM hit my BB 7290!
These guys are the scum of the community, and if I were IBM I'd bounce them out of the partner program. The ONLY thing that's keeps these jackals around is the type of companies that would use their services (see point #1) - people that don't care about how they're perceived by both the community, their potential customers, or their current customer base - but would rather know that they had an email read a few thousand times about their (crappy) product(s).
