[Chris - AMWSO]

http://downloads.zango.com/mailimage.../metricsdirect(0704)2.gif

Spammed out to merchants as a pure graphic email under the heading of 'Improving online traffic and ROI'

[Chris - AMWSO]

Wonder if the remove me option actually works...

[Rhea]

Chris, do you know where they got your email address?

[Jorge - SHOPiMAR]

lvrabek@metricsdirect.com

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Don't these people ever quit. Please go ahead and spam the above email address for me, as they just spammed me again to my affiliates@shop4tech.com address.

Don't you people know you who I am. It will not work, did you ever read the letter sent to you over 6 months ago when I asked you not to even call or email me.

Soon you will face the judge and then realize, it just wasn't worth it.

I just sent them a reply to this link to this page. You people at MD read this, again. Have fun.

[bedelman]

180's spam-based marketing really is over the top. Some further references:

http://www.benedelman.org/spyware/18...ion.html#email

http://www.jerrysworld.org/article.html?cid=3906

http://www.mail-archive.com/devel@xf.../msg05922.html

http://ma.ph-freiburg.de/tng/tng-tec.../msg00006.html

http://lists.copyleft.no/pipermail/a...il/000101.html


And those are just (some of) the spams they happened to send to public mailing lists or to folks who were so annoyed they decided to post the messages to the web. Hard to know how many thousands more spams they sent that didn't make it into the public record.