EHelp's Deceptive Email Practice

Subject: EHelp's Deceptive Email Practice
From: "Mike Bradley" <mbradley -at- techpubs -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 10:30:42 -0700


I got a marketing email from RoboHelp today. The sender was
Help.Topics@<my_company> instead of Help -dot- Topics -at- ehelp -dot- com -dot- Now, that's a
trick I've only seen spammers use and it just doesn't feel right. I sent the
following in reply. Think I'm being a crank?

= Mike Bradley
Tech Pubs


> I'm very put off by the deceptive way you have set the sender
> address of this email: Help.Topics@<my_company>. Don't you have
> enough faith in your own company to be honest about who is
> sending the email?
>
> I am putting the sender Help.Topics@<my_company> on my spammer
> list. If you want to send me email, send it from ehelp.com.
>
> = Mike Bradley
> A long-time user of RoboHelp


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