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

[C F]

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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