@Professor 164453 wrote:
Ok guys this has to come to a close.
Fiction is this an over reaction or a Vendetta? Do 4 emails to delete a day really make your life an unbearable living hell?
I delete hundreds of emails a day and it doesnt phase me a bit. I hate SPAM but I dont go wild eyed over it.
You do realize that Fortune is a real company that has hundreds of employees who’s family depend on the income they earn working there? Thousands of other affiliates are happy with Fortune and receive monthly commissions that help feed their families too. And I would be willing to bet that tens of thousands of players ENJOY playing at their properties, no?
You want to bring all that to a grinding halt and bring down their domains because there is one spammer who sent you offers for the Fortune brand Casinos? I can understand targeting the spammer, but is it reasonable to disrupt everyones lives over this?
Did Marvyn contact you and try to get the necessary proof to possibly ban this spammer from their program?
If a rogue affiliate accused YOU of spamming and demanded your account be immediately closed and this was a false claim would that be ok? If he DID opt in to your list or newsletter and then report you as a spammer as a way to eliminate the competition would you want your account closed and all your players forfeited without investigation?
If he refused to help the program sort things out and instead went on a campaign at message boards to have them closed down unless they submitted to his demands and shut your account, would that be fair.
Guys we hate SPAM as much as anyone else. We certainly dont advocate SPAM and we do ask our partners to take action against rogue affiliates who use this “marketing” technique. But trying to destroy an entire company over a few emails is a little over the top no?
Can we settle this amicably and sensibly? I will be happy to assist.
Just responding in defense of my postings in this thread. I was getting sometimes over a hundred a day in fortune spam, not 4, see: http://www.casinoaffiliateprograms.com/bb/spam-amp-more-spam.27046.html?. I depend on income from this business to support myself. I use an old Cobalt server that really can’t handle an overload of spam. Over & over the amount of spam promoting the Fortune casinos was pushing my allocated disk space over quota. My server would shut down, again & again. Costing me money, time & aggravating the hell outta me. I have contacted Fortune for months & most of the time I never even got a response. When I did get a response, the promise that the spam would stop wasn’t kept. I kept getting bombarded! What the heck am I suppose to do? Many times I had to shut down all my important email addresses for days to avoid my server shutting down. How many important emails did I lose during that time? Coincidentally, every time I posted here about the Fortune spam, I got a ton of “undeliverable” mail to my server. Causing it to shut down, again. Yes, Marvyn has been very helpful & I know he is doing his best. But, they should not allow any spamming in the first place. Period.