[Asterisk-Users] Did anyone else get spammed by GIZMO?

[C F]

If you download it then you agree to the EULA.

On 7/24/05, Steve Totaro <asterisk at totarotechnologies.com> wrote:
> Just because you give your email address does not allow for unsolicited
> emails unless you agree in the EULA or terms and conditions.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "C F" <shmaltz at gmail.com>
> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
> <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 3:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Did anyone else get spammed by GIZMO?
> 
> 
> Interesting, I've been on this list for almost a year now, and I
> didn't recieve this spam. Are you sure you didn't download any sip
> softphones and gave your email address?
> In which case it is NOT spam, you gave your email address to them.
> 
> 
> On 7/22/05, Jay Milk <jay at skimmilk.net> wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jerry Glomph Black [mailto:asterisk-users at glomph.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 2:18 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Did anyone else get spammed by GIZMO?
> > >
> > > It's not a spam.  They are not yokels.  Don't know about you....
> > >
> > > Gizmo is basically a different front end offered by the
> > > Sipphone.com people, to offer an alternative to Skype which
> > > is not a closed jail (interoperates with all
> > > SIP devices, asterisk, etc.).
> > >
> > > I think they sent the mail to all registered sipphone.com users.
> >
> > Dear Glomph,
> >
> > Thanks, I know what the Gizmo project is.  I'm just not interested.
> >
> > And yes, it's spam:
> > 1. It's unsolicited -- I'm not registered on Sipphone.com.  It came in
> > through an email address I use exclusively for the asterisk-users list
> > and a small volume of personal mail.
> > 2. It's commercial -- #5 of "10 more things to do" reads "Add $10 in
> > CallOut credit to your account and talk for hours".  So, they're trying
> > to sell me something.
> >
> > Yokel: "A clumsy, unsophisticated person".  I think that would be their
> > preferred label... Why?  Because if you send unsolicited commercial
> > email in the US without offering a way to opt out of future mailings,
> > you're either clumsy and unsophisticated, or you're a criminal.  I gave
> > them the benefit of the doubt and called them "yokels".  If that term
> > offends you in any way, then let's use the more factual "criminals."
> >
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