Look, I bend over backwards to protect the interests of DPNow.com readers.
I'm a professional journalist of 22 years reputation. I set up DPNow five
years ago as a serious resource for people interested in digital
photography. It's a labour of love. I abhor spammers and spamming and if you
wish to associate DPNow with this activity I must protest. If you think that
DPNow is guilty of spamming and stealing innocent people's details for such
an activity a) show me the evidence and b) if you can't, will you apologise?
I urge you to save your energies for fighting those that really deserve it.
To answer your question, if we get a sponsor for a competion that asks for
the details of entrants, we make it clear to them that they can only expect
the details of entrants if these entrants individually grant permission. We
will never run a competition like this without this stipulation and the vast
majority of competitions the sponsor does not ask for entrants details
anyway. And we would never run a competition on these terms with a sponsor
who is not reputable. This month's competition is to win a Casio digital
camera and is sponsored by Casio, but they have not asked for entrants
details and even if they asked now, we would not provide them. It's been
many months since we ran a competition where the sponsor requested entrants
details.
Assuming you're not just a troll out to wind up someone like me who takes
these accusations seriously, you're shooting at your own side and unfairly
tarnishing what I believe is good reputation. If you are a troll, well,
touché.
Ian
Digital Photography Now
http://dpnow.com
"Kinon O'Cann" <> wrote in message
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>> Dave - that is most certainly *not* our intention. We only have one
>> active subscriber list and that is for our newsletter. The Photo Fix
>> Challenge is not connected to that. If you have unsubscribed from the
>> newsletter or from an older list and you don't think it worked, email
>> and I'll see to it personally that the problem is sorted
>> out.
>>
>> We have never sold subscriber information to a third party and only very
>> occasionally passed such information on to third parties when we have
>> made it very clear that we might do this and *always* with an option to
>> opt out.
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> Thanks for admitting that you do spam, and you pass the information along
> to other spammers, as you have made clear. Just who are these "third
> parties" and what do they do with the info?
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> And anyone with a brain knows that opt-out plans are simply a scam to
> verify a working e-mail address. Nice try, but please spam some other NG.
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>> Ian
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>> Digital Photography Now
>> http://dpnow.com
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>> "DaveG" <dave-> wrote in message
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>>> Sometime on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 09:00:53 +0000, Digital Photography Now
>>> scribbled:
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>>>>
>>>> If you fancy a bit of fun turning a drab snapshot into something more
>>>> interesting, fun or dramatic, why no have a go at the DPNow.com Photo
>>>> Fix
>>>> Challenge?
>>>>
>>>> It's all explained here:
>>>>
>>>> http://dpnow.com/2880.html
>>>>
>>>> Digital Photography Now
>>>> http://dpnow.com
>>>
>>> Yeah, sign up to dpnow and continue to get spammed months after you have
>>> supposedly been unsubscribed.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dave
>>> Our business in life is not to succeed,
>>> but to continue to fail in good spirits.
>>> Robert Louis Stevenson
>>>
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