"Julie Barkly, irepsonline ‘Netpreneur’"
wrote in message
To all concerned,
Today, I have received written and verbal reprimands from my autoresponder
company, Aweber. In my ignorance and innocence, I forwarded a letter provided by Moneyhome.com. The intentions were pure-at-heart. I genuinely thought I was taping into what would be a viable arena of viewers interested in what I had to present.
After having my autoresponder shut down today, it has been my sad
discovery that my signature links (which contained ads about the businesses I am affiliated with), isn’t allowed by the majority of these News Groups.
I want only to make ammends for my misguided message and want you to know
I am sorry. I truly hope I have not caused much inconvenience for the recipients of that email.
I ask to be forgiven for my actions and genuinely feel terrible about what
resulted.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Julie Barkley
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MAF Anti-Spam ID: 20040527130128C1n4RsV8
Julie,
Newsgroups are not the free classified section in the on-line world. Most newsgroup are a community, with regulars subscribers, posters, visitors and lurkers. When you or another advertiser comes along and uses software to post with abandon you have violated the etiquette of common sense. In addition, you have violated the charters, and the FAQ that are the rules of many newsgroups.
Most ISP honor the charters and the FAQ of newsgroups and will terminate accounts if a complaint is sent from several newsgroups to the spammers ISP. You are apparently very fortunately your account was not terminated for violating a number of Terms and conditions with your advertising that was considered spamming.
Newsgroups is not your personal bulletin board, nor the free classified section of the on-line world. No one in business would spam newsgroups announcing, with the exception of the latest fraud, or marketing pyramid, or adult website. Yes, newsgroups try to defend their position in the on-line world and this become more difficult every day.
http://www.consumer.gov/sentinel/ http://members.impulse.net/~thebob/Pyramid.html It is not that your auto-responder was shut down, you became a spammer. I believe you should be required to perform public service, for the spamming disruption you have done. Next time please have respect, lurk, and take the time to read the FAQ, or charter of the newsgroup before you violate anyone on-line community…
Julie, you should be aware that posting unwanted unsolicited advertising to sell something for profit or as a method to capture e-mail address, are messages that have no value to the newsgroup subscribers/communities. These messages use up valuable space on the news servers and push a message off the newsgroup retention list. In some countries, the reader must pay for the expense of downloading your advertising message that he or she does not want, but you posted and created the problem.
Below are some general rules or guidelines for the binary section of the Usenet.
Folks who post a message with no picture attachment, but a link(s) to a Web site(s), are spammers.
Folks who post pictures plastered with the URL to their site (billboards) are spammers.
Folks who put their URL or advertising note in their headers are spammers. Folks who modify their e-mail address regularly to defy kill filters are spammers.
Folks who use cross-posting as a method to post to many unrelated newsgroups are spammers.
In the last 6 months, most individuals have stopped using the cross posting Usenet feature, and currently only spammers cross post.
The Usenet is not a venue of free advertising. No legitimate business utilizes spam to gain market recognition.
JR the postman
