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

[Jay Milk]

Only softphone I ever downloaded (and promptly deleted) was xten.  And
no, I never "register" with this email address.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: C F [mailto:shmaltz at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 5:13 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> 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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