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Monday, January 20, 2003
"Ain't it Cool?" No... No, It Isn't
I don't know why, but it really feels like I'm on an anti-spam crusade lately. Maybe it has something to do with the hundreds of freakin' spam e-mails I receive everyday! It's not enough for me to successfully block spam in Outlook; now I feel like reaching out to help others avoid it and those who peddle it. Here's my latest crusade.
Chances are that you've been hit with spam e-mails from a company called Coolstats.com, which offers a service that helps webmasters and marketers track website user activity for a fee. And if you have the same distaste for spam that I do, you're more than a little upset about it. This one ranks up there with that Traffic Magnet spam conspiracy (you know, the one with the giant magnet next to the snapshot of your home page?)
Well, I'm going to get back at Coolstats the best way I know: negative publicity. If you are in the market to outsource user activity tracking software, why not turn to legitimate companies like ConversionRuler or ClickLab? At least they respect their customers.
The sad truth is that companies like Coolstats do quite well by spamming anyone with an e-mail address (this one came to my Yahoo Mail account -- go figure), and until governing agencies to something to prevent this annoying waste of bandwidth, we will be stuck with an ever increasing chorus of spam for years to come.
Ain't it cool?
Posted by
Cory Kleinschmidt
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