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Pastimes : Silicon Investor ThinkTank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (2431)	3/12/2001 11:32:43 AM
From: Daniel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3372

Did you sign up to receive SI's newsletter? Of course not. They just started sending me unwanted junk mail. (I think they subscribed me by default when they created the newsletter, which I find to be a very offensive practice.) After I got them to remove me from the mailing list, they added me again (I don't recall if it was for the same newsletter or a new one). How did you mark these in your preferences? I didn't. Those items didn't exist when I signed up (years ago). I didn't request the newsletter. I didn't accept an offer to get the newsletter. In fact, after the first one, I told them in no uncertain terms to talk me off their f***ing mailing list. (Well, that was one of my not-uncertain terms.) The liars said (on two separate occasions) that they didn't maintain mailing lists and that the messages must be from some spammer using SI's return address. (Yeah, right. One was a SI newsletter, and one was an announcement of new SI services. I'm sure that was some anonymous spammer.) Okay, so it was really just that the people who answered my messages were incompetent (not knowing about the mailings), or that the support address I tried (ending with "@siliconinvestor.com") didn't actually go to SI-specific support but went to someone in the parent company who knew little about SI. Contact Preferences Would you like to receive periodic email notification of new services, features and special offers from Silicon Investor and Go2Net? Yes No Would you like Silicon Investor/Go2Net to make the information that you provide available to selected companies? (These companies would send you information on products and services that we think you might find interesting.) Yes No I told them to not send me stuff in the future (by replying to an old private message from the Silicon Investor user name containing an announcement message from Mike Coddington, which seems to have worked), but those profile page settings are blank (neither Yes nor No is checked) on the screen; I don't know what values their database contains. I can't change just those settings. (That profile page won't let me change those contact preferences without filling in other fields) Daniel