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Anti-Spam vendor for Notes uses Spam and bogus award
By Andrew Pollack on 09/12/2003 at 04:30 PM EDTNo secret here, that good friend and fabulous anti-spam software writer Mark Ramos is my own preferred hands down winner of any anti-spam software award for Notes. Its also no secret that I think good competition is a good thing.
I must say though, I was deeply disappointed in the ethics implicit when Mayflower Software was awarded "Editor's Choice" for their "SpamSentinel" product (no link to this product because I don't WANT to link to them) by "InsideDomino". Interesting, because the Editor-In_Chief of Inside Domino is Frank Paolino who is also the founder and President of Mayflower Software.
Hmmm, the Editor's Choice is the software written by the Editor's Company. And to boot, they used mass email to market this farce.
Spread the word, blogmates!
They say a fish stinks from head.
re: Anti-Spam vendor for Notes uses Spam and bogus awardBy Ben Poole on 06/23/2004 at 11:21 AM EDT
Ah yes, InsideDomino. A quality "publication" if ever there was one... Not.
re: re: Anti-Spam vendor for Notes uses Spam and bogus awardBy Thomas Duff on 06/23/2004 at 11:21 AM EDT
Yeah, that DOES stink... much like when Stampede Technologies (many year ago)
would spam the Lotus Support forum with "discussions" about some cool software
that some "user" had found... They didn't know that we could trace IP
addresses, and we traced the postings back to the company...
would spam the Lotus Support forum with "discussions" about some cool software
that some "user" had found... They didn't know that we could trace IP
addresses, and we traced the postings back to the company...
re: Anti-Spam vendor for Notes uses Spam and bogus awardBy Chris Toohey on 06/23/2004 at 11:21 AM EDT
: Yeah, I got the same email. I wonder if I would have seen it if I were using
their product? Hey, that'd be an interesting slogan "You wouldn't be reading
this is you have our software!"
And insideDomino is really p*ssing me off. 90% of the spam I get I get from
them.
grumble grumble,
-Chris
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No secret here, that good friend and fabulous anti-spam software writer Mark
Ramos is my own preferred hands down winner of any anti-spam software award for
Notes. Its also no secret that I think good competition is a good thing. I must
say though, I was deeply disappointed in the ethics implicit when Mayflower
Software was awarded "Editor's Choice" for their "SpamSentinel" product (no
link to this product because I don't WANT to link to them) by "InsideDomino".
Interesting, because the Editor-In_Chief of Inside Domino is Frank Paolino who
is also the founder and President of Mayflower Software. Hmmm, the Editor's
Choice is the software written by the Editor's Company. And to boot, they used
mass email to market this farce. Spread the word, blogmates! They say a fish
stinks from head.
their product? Hey, that'd be an interesting slogan "You wouldn't be reading
this is you have our software!"
And insideDomino is really p*ssing me off. 90% of the spam I get I get from
them.
grumble grumble,
-Chris
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in response to
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No secret here, that good friend and fabulous anti-spam software writer Mark
Ramos is my own preferred hands down winner of any anti-spam software award for
Notes. Its also no secret that I think good competition is a good thing. I must
say though, I was deeply disappointed in the ethics implicit when Mayflower
Software was awarded "Editor's Choice" for their "SpamSentinel" product (no
link to this product because I don't WANT to link to them) by "InsideDomino".
Interesting, because the Editor-In_Chief of Inside Domino is Frank Paolino who
is also the founder and President of Mayflower Software. Hmmm, the Editor's
Choice is the software written by the Editor's Company. And to boot, they used
mass email to market this farce. Spread the word, blogmates! They say a fish
stinks from head.
InsideDomino spamBy Ed Brill on 06/23/2004 at 11:21 AM EDT
Thanks for the heads-up Andrew.
For those of us who have actually judged "Editor's Choice" awards or Lotus
Beacons, this is insulting. We should probably start a discussion in the BP
Forum about this as well -- to keep other partners apprised of the cheesy
tactics being used in the community.
--Ed
For those of us who have actually judged "Editor's Choice" awards or Lotus
Beacons, this is insulting. We should probably start a discussion in the BP
Forum about this as well -- to keep other partners apprised of the cheesy
tactics being used in the community.
--Ed
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