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As a very offtopic question, is there a central registry of all the mainstream-ish companies that spam or do other unscrupulous things? Just so I can make a poi
by smanek 18y ago
As a very offtopic question, is there a central registry of all the mainstream-ish companies that spam or do other unscrupulous things? Just so I can make a point of avoiding giving them money ...
- Tichy 18y agoI often considered creating such a directory, but there is a problem: what if a competitor tries to hurt a business by spamming in it's name? Therefore I think such a directory is not a good idea, or at least there would have to be mechanisms to prevent that issue.
- m0nty 18y agoI used to have a domain which had its URL included in a completely unrelated spam. A blacklisting organisation (voluntary, I think) contacted my ISP to tell them I was going on their list unless I could explain what had happened. I spent a very long, depressing email conversation explaining to them exactly what database poisoning was, and why the spammers would include unrelated URLs in a spam email. So many ways to fail at that kind of endeavour... (The URL was for my open source project. Clearly, they didn't even check the webpage before issuing their threat.)