Okay, I have no dog in this fight nor do I know anyone involved. Let’s just imagine the guy who sent the emails did the following: He knows or learned that this site has a great following. He looks at the bulletin boards and sees that most people have profiles. The sites he is promoting represents a particular geographic area. He scans the profiles and notes the people within a geographic area who may be interested in the particular sites he represents. He sends them emails with links to those sites. I personally don’t see what’s the big deal.
I have a spam blocker that places all emails from addresses I haven’t sent to or marked as acceptable to an “Anti-Spam” file. I can review those emails(or not), delete or read what I want. Probably most of you have something similar. So again, big deal. I get plenty of hard mail from advertisers, credit cards, banks, stores, etc. every day. They just gets tossed.
I don’t disagree with almost all you wrote. I would like to opine one dissenting opinion:
“this person could have, just as easily, if not even more so, posted a topic in the soundoff forum, with links and a friendly “hello”. it would have been much better received by the people here, im sure.”
I don’t think a post like that would be appreciated or allowed.
Amen…Again I have to say , Ya Nailed it again Chris…dead on with what my whole intentions were in the first place…Allan…I was not mad…I was disapointed that a person took advantage of a membership here…for THEIR OWN PERSONAL GAIN…In the monatary sence…Thats it…and thats that…Good day to all…And yes…if this were not voiced…when does this kind of thing stop…?..My anti spam works fine…and that mail was added with all the crap I get…
“I’ve often wondered why it is that so many anglers spend so much money on,and pay so much attention to.the details on the wrong end of the fly line.If they took as much care in selecting or tying their flies as they did in the selection of the reel and rod,They might be able to gain the real extra edge that makes it possible to fool a fish that has,in fact,seen it all before” A.K.Best
Everyone wants to excel in this sport but at the same time we let traditionalists place restrictions on our tactics, methods, and ideas. I always assumed that fly fishing was a sport that allowed imagination, creation, adaptation, investigation, dedication, education, revelation? : Fox Statler, On Spinners (Not the dainty Dry Fly kind) “Spinner’d Minner Fly”
In the virtual business world, it is considered unethical to promote your website for free via another’s website without their permission. I think that includes snaking the email addy’s off of member profiles.
Thanks for the vote of confidence Chris, and you are right. We’ve had many offers, but we do not sell, rent, lend, share or in any way give out any information, including email to anyone at any time.
Glad to see yer back and posting,Have to confess,I was wondering where you had been hiding…lol…even ask on another thread here on the boards…Welcome back hope works letting up on you!
“I’ve often wondered why it is that so many anglers spend so much money on,and pay so much attention to.the details on the wrong end of the fly line.If they took as much care in selecting or tying their flies as they did in the selection of the reel and rod,They might be able to gain the real extra edge that makes it possible to fool a fish that has,in fact,seen it all before” A.K.Best
Everyone wants to excel in this sport but at the same time we let traditionalists place restrictions on our tactics, methods, and ideas. I always assumed that fly fishing was a sport that allowed imagination, creation, adaptation, investigation, dedication, education, revelation? : Fox Statler, On Spinners (Not the dainty Dry Fly kind) “Spinner’d Minner Fly”
