GigaNews Spam?

[Nevermore]

I got the spam at my gmail addy too. Not a Time Warner customer though. Never have been.
Actually, they don't offer service in my area - I'm in the wrong country for a start.

Anal retentive or not - I don't appreciate getting irrelevant ads from some third party, simply because I'm a member of this forum.

However, if it had been a "We haven't seen you at FST for quite a while, please consider visiting the forum" kind of thing, I wouldn't have problem.

One email or a thousand, this is not good PR.

[JPaul]

Did you get it from a third party, I got it from here.

Getting it from someone else would make a difference to me as well.

[Skiz]

He means to say the ad was from here, but it was advertising for a third party. i.e. - Giganews.

[JPaul]

I know what he means but it's not what he said. The implication of what he said is that you have been supplying our email addresses to other people.

[RealitY]

The emails arent given to any other sources. The email sent should have contained information about the recent slow loading of pages on the site and the new server we have now to sort those issues. Its likely some havent been here based on those issues. The promotion was to be mentioned within that email also. Though unfortunately the complete email wasnt sent which was circumstantial and it was sent as is. This wasnt intended to offend or create a stir. We rarely send any emails at all from the site other than those auto generated which are set in members preferences. We will resend the email complete some time this week as it should have been sent...

[manicgeek]

Ah! Now that makes sense An email to encourage members to return that just happens to contain "A message from our sponsor" and unfortunately only the message from the sponsor bit got sent.

Cheers, at least we'll know what the next one is when we get it

[brotherdoobie]

It's a conspiracy. Right...


-bd

[manicgeek]

It's a conspiracy. Right...


-bd

Eh? What you on about bd

[brotherdoobie]

I'm on about my 11th Grolsch, actually.


-bd

[rookiecrd1]

Guys, at least be fair here. Spam is Unsolicited email. The email some may have received, although it wasn't sent in the format or completion we meant it to be, it was sent from FST, a forum which you sign up to.

Second, If any of you care to take on full multiple server costs, ddos protection costs and other costs of running this site, feel free to, and I'll personally make sure you don't see any ads or ever get an email with an ad in it again. The site is losing money, we just took on even more costs. The forum is 100% free for all of you to use our bandwidth, and storage, and we have far fewer ads then other related forums, yet some of you still complain. Find me another large forum that is in the red, that has fewer ads on it then FST.

Our goal is to survive and provide you all with a place to communicate and share information with one another free of charge, unfortionately this means we have to pay to have the site up and running, thus a very few ads.