Epic Fail with VMWare Newsletters
VMWare has always been somewhat free to access email addresses received from partners. In the sense, “to the left” they did not go away, but to find themselves subscribed to yet another newsletter about the New and Very Promising Product - easily.
The same applies to all kinds of events.
The practice is not very commendable, but still tolerable. That was until a certain moment, until VMWare added these addresses to the next mailing list: russia-cis-partners at lists.vmware.com.
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This was done with the help of mailman, and the mailman himself does not know that there is such a mailing on his server: lists.vmware.com/mailman/listinfo/russia-cis-partners
Subscription message has arrived. There was still no mailing itself, like ...
... as it turned out that everyone can write to this list. And it started. I remember there was a similar story a few years ago, when several tens of thousands of indignant letters went through the mailing list with a request to unsubscribe (and each such letter came back to all the others indignant, causing the appearance of new indignants), it seems that it was in some kind of municipal distribution, if anyone remembers, poke.
So, exactly the same situation.
At the moment, there are already more than 500 letters in this “discussion list”. They were signed (and responded) by very, very respected people: project development managers, heads of IT departments, systems integration departments, IT consulting, commercial directors, etc. In other words, if I needed a thoroughly verified base of business contacts in the IT industry with live emails, then here it is, in the mailbox.
... And even more fun is expected on Monday, when these letters will be read by another wave of indignant employees who will write about this to the newsletter.
Morality:
The same applies to all kinds of events.
The practice is not very commendable, but still tolerable. That was until a certain moment, until VMWare added these addresses to the next mailing list: russia-cis-partners at lists.vmware.com.
')
This was done with the help of mailman, and the mailman himself does not know that there is such a mailing on his server: lists.vmware.com/mailman/listinfo/russia-cis-partners
Subscription message has arrived. There was still no mailing itself, like ...
... as it turned out that everyone can write to this list. And it started. I remember there was a similar story a few years ago, when several tens of thousands of indignant letters went through the mailing list with a request to unsubscribe (and each such letter came back to all the others indignant, causing the appearance of new indignants), it seems that it was in some kind of municipal distribution, if anyone remembers, poke.
So, exactly the same situation.
At the moment, there are already more than 500 letters in this “discussion list”. They were signed (and responded) by very, very respected people: project development managers, heads of IT departments, systems integration departments, IT consulting, commercial directors, etc. In other words, if I needed a thoroughly verified base of business contacts in the IT industry with live emails, then here it is, in the mailbox.
... And even more fun is expected on Monday, when these letters will be read by another wave of indignant employees who will write about this to the newsletter.
Morality:
- mailman - a dangerous thing
- Sign without explicit consent - bad form
- You should not do this on the evening of Friday the 13th.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/142130/
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