Steve, was that some sort of threat? FWIW my site is not subject to current NASD or SEC regulation. I am not subject to any disclosure rules. It's a discussion site. First amendment and all that. It does voluntarily cooperate with NASDR in monitoring the activities of visitors. (As does SI. There's no need, BTW, to contact anyone to "turn me in". NASDR's neural net will almost certainly flag this conversation for review. :) )
I am not going to mention the name of the site because of your bluff. You said you sent me e-mail. You didn't. I don't think you really know the details of the situation. It's unlikely that you will until Tuesday when your firm is open, and your domain administrator responds to an inquiry from your ISP.
You say you don't know how my name got on your list. IMO, you should. It's irresponsible not to. You should be able to state the date it was added, and why. (Signed-up at website, e-mail request, purchased list, etc.)
Do you have a third party handle any part of this for you? It's not uncommon to farm-out list handling and/or registration? Unfortunately, not everybody that handles lists is honest. They generally get paid by the name, which is, of course, a situation begging for abuse.
Or, is it possible that you hired somebody to do promotional work contacting websites to set up links, and they misguidedly thought that a good way to do that would be to sign-up site administrators to receive your newsletter, without their consent or your knowledge?
BTW, the SECOND most common excuse for spam (just behind "a friend must have thought you were interested and signed you up") is "we hired somebody to do promotion - we didn't know they were spamming, though".
Here's the final irony: I was contacted by one of your customers, curious as to what I received. He wanted me to send him a copy. I told him that it was just a newsletter, that he probably already had. He didn't. So I wound-up sending him a copy. I hope he found it interesting. It certainly would have been more interesting to him than to me. I'm getting your damn newsletter filling up my mailbox, and your customer isn't...
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