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Dear Domino Spammer

Why is this from HZ Marketing? Do they not know what 'HZ' stands for? Should I expect emails at a per-second rate?

I know I have a visible email address. I'm sure I've posted it on twitter, developerWorks, edbrill.com, eview.com, my own blog, and probably about a zillion other places. So sure, it can be harvested. Nevertheless this is unacceptable.

Note to Heather Schein: I'm a co-founder and Steering Committee member of OpenNTF.org. I've been published in The View. I'm a Design Partner on half of Lotus' product portfolio. I've been blogging for over 5 years. I've done podcasts, interviews, viral videos, presented at Lotusphere, carried press credentials, and otherwise done just about everything you can imagine with Domino short of being a paid member of the IBM engineering team. As I write this, I can't even remember the number of things I've done in the yellowverse that ultimately mean that I don't READ news about Domino; I WRITE it.

And you know why I'm absolutely sure that your site is as useful to me as a 3-assed monkey?
Isn't that Domino logo from 4.5? Why not say 'InterNotes?'

Isn't that Domino logo from 4.5? Why not say 'InterNotes?'

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Comments

1 - Wow, you didn't highlight the "retro" domino logo as well Emoticon

Posted by Joseph Hoetzl At 11:27:23 PM On 02/08/2010 | - Website - |

2 - So did you try searching the LNOTES-L mailing list for 3 assed monkey to see who's e-mail address came up?

Posted by Peter Presnell At 11:27:43 PM On 02/08/2010 | - Website - |

3 - @1 - Always read the title text on the image. Emoticon

@2 - You tease. I thought you really meant something interesting would come up, but I can't get a match. There's only a handful of anything with "monkey" at all.

Posted by Nathan T. Freeman At 11:42:54 PM On 02/08/2010 | - Website - |

4 - If you would like to contact Lance more directly this should help.

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Posted by Giulio Campobassi At 04:39:39 AM On 02/09/2010 | - Website - |

5 - For the record, no email addresses are being harvested from edbrill.com. Even when they were externally visible, they were as javascript pop-ups rather than straight text. I turned them off a long time ago. Then again, given the age of this site, maybe they are working off an old list.

Posted by Ed Brill At 07:32:01 AM On 02/09/2010 | - Website - |

6 - @5 - Ed, I didn't mean to imply that you're mismanaging email addresses. There's every chance that sometime in the last 3 years, I put that address in the body of a comment.

Posted by Nathan T. Freeman At 08:08:15 AM On 02/09/2010 | - Website - |

7 - Ah, now I know what they look like: { Link }

Posted by Nathan T. Freeman At 08:18:37 AM On 02/09/2010 | - Website - |

8 - Ah, yes... Good ol' Heather Schein. Not by any means the first time she's been the subject of this type of discussion.. See { Link }

Posted by Richard Schwartz At 03:43:10 PM On 02/09/2010 | - Website - |

9 - Of course a three-assed (or four- or five-assed) monkey is useless. The seven-assed Galapagos tortoise is what you need.

Posted by Charles Robinson At 08:37:22 AM On 02/10/2010 | - Website - |

10 - are dominofiles and dominonews related? I didn't actually know that dominonews existed. I do however remember dominofiles, however I guess all the spam biz must be good as even after all what's been posted, they still exist...

Posted by Mike Robinson At 08:39:47 PM On 02/26/2010 | - Website - |

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