Thanks for the info GG. Tech cockups are acceptable IMO – God knows I’ve made some like that in the past 
“Culling the Internet” (trawling?) for emails and then mass emailing that list isn’t though. It is simply spamming. Not exactly an “opt-in”.
Besides, if they were aiming for accreditation here, they’d have access to the affiliates anyway via the forum if they waited. Nice people or not, that’s the bit that winds me up and it worries me that they don’t understand the concept of ethical marketing.
I kept this post private as I am always willing to cut slack to new operations while they find their feet, but if they spam like this, it won’t be long before someone posts publically and that could, justifiably in this instance, hurt them early.
Lou: I think it’s worth pointing this out to them in the Accreditation process (if it doesn’t address this already), if only for their own future benefit.