>winterizewithscotts.com
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>Scott's lawncare registered user updates.
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Matt,
winterizewithscotts.com looks like a case of "affiliate" spamming or
misuse of "sweepstakes" entries.
See:
http://forums.gottadeal.com/archive/index.php/t-14640.html
http://forums.gottadeal.com/archive/index.php/t-13473.html
http://www.acohardware.com/673.html
It seem they are always operating a $99k "sweepstakes". Also
their "privacy policy" at:
http://www.scotts.com/index.cfm/event/privacyPolicy.home
contains the "weasel words":
"
Any information you provide to us (i.e., name, e-mail address, etc.)...
or to provide you with special notices. ...
"
So in one sentence they say you will never receive anything except
what you ask for *OR* "special notices". It looks CAN-SPAM compliant, but
smells like spam to me. However, they are one of the few types of companies
where I would trust the "opt-out" procedures they mention to actually work.
But the site and email concerning it is *not* only for registered
users and updates.
My guess (and just a guess) - someone (or many people) entered
their sweepstakes from affiliated website(s) (which lack the link to the
(non)-privacy policy), then later got email from scotts and reported it
as the spam they believed it was. I agree, that if this is what happened,
the people were probably incorrect to do so, but from the sites above, it
is nearly impossible to get to the "privacy policy" page which tells an
entrant in their sweepstakes that he is agreeing to allow future emails
(of course most of us reading this list realize if you give a company
an email account, you *should* expect advertising from them).
Paul Shupak
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
