From: "List Mail User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>List Mail User wrote:
winterizewithscotts.com
Scott's lawncare registered user updates.
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
One problem Paul.. There's no ID associated with any of the links in
those articles. There's no way for those articles to be useful spam, as
there's no way to track back who the affiliate was, so there's no
benefit to the affiliate. (unless of course they happen to own a
hardware store that sells fertilizers.)
I sincerely doubt your theory, at least with the evidence presented. If
you can find a link to winterizewithscotts that's got some kind of
affiliate tracker, I might believe you.
Also, I'll point out a google-groups search for this domain name returns
0 hits. Therefore, no NANAS or NANAE reports.
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=winterizewithscotts&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&filter=0&sa=N&tab=wg
If this was being spammed by an affiliate abuser, there'd be more
evidence of it than a couple of posts about it on forums and hardware
store websites with no affiliate-tracker.
In each case, normal HTML gives a "referrer" page, so no affiliate
ID is needed. Also, while some of those links will *still* take you to a
"sweepstakes" page, the site winterizewithscotts.com has a simple page
which note that the "promotion" is over (!) and a link to the main "Scotts"
page. Clearly, this page had better not be the method for communicating
with registered users, unless Scotts has just dropped all "support".
I suggest you look at the three pages:
http://www.winterizewithscotts.com/
http://www.winterizewithscotts.com/index.tbapp?page=intro
OK, the second one of those links to the mail-in coupon. It clearly says
if you give an email address you will receive specific information directly
related to the contest via email. Otherwise it will be by snail mail. It
does NOT say you will receive other information as well. So subsequent
mailings should constitute a spam message if they are not directly related
to winning the contest. It is easy to see how they could have become
listed and why they should have been.
{^_^}
