Comments on: Some “Tech Websites” Are Not What You Think They Are

By: Geek

Geek — Fri, 21 Nov 2003 06:17:50 +0000

How would we spam you?? We don’t sell anything nor do we promote the site via e-mail. There is a opt in newsletter thats it. I am confused.

By: Afterimage

Afterimage — Fri, 21 Nov 2003 05:39:38 +0000

Yeah one time I posted a comment on this “tech” website, geek something something, and then I got spam from them. WTH? Oh wait, that was here. =/

By: John Silver

John Silver — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:38:02 +0000

I really think the guy from Sunbelt Software is wasting his time and his breath attempting to shoot down his competitors on message boards (or on his own website) for doing basically the same thing he does. I get both of Sunbelt’s newsletters on account of having downloaded trials of their software. I never opted in for the subscriptions but they are just (barely) interesting enough not to cancel. Almost all the “recommendations” and links in Sunbelt’s newsletters are a blatant pitch to sell their product (or do the same for paid advertisers of which they don’t seem to have very many). I never see the admission included in context with their “recommendation” that ” I Hate Spam” is their product. I never followed the link to find that out because having tried their program I was thoroughly unimpressed and NOT interested. I never even connected the trial download with the appearance of the newsletter in my mailbox. I think their newsletters are nothing more than a brief re-hash of what they’ve read from someone else’s website with all the meat trimmed out — just an excuse to blast you with a pitch for their same old product line week after week. Personally, I would warn anyone whom I might share the newsletter with to stay away from their software. Not that the newsletters are anything to write home about. I find the name of the poster of this article on the about page but not the name of the person who wrote it nor the business relationship between them. Being of average intelligence it seems pretty obvious to me that a piece like this that so blatantly does a fluff job on Sunbelt Software while blasting some other poor shmuck I’ve never heard of is more commercially motivated crap than anything remotely resembling genuine news, sound technical advice, or well-explained detailed reasons to choose one software over another. Maybe you think your average web visitor isn’t intelligent enough to realize when someone is trying to sell him something. Eh? Anyhow, as a salesman you pretty much suck. Thanks anyway. By the way, if you don’t want to invite people to post links to other websites maybe you could save yourself the trouble by not using a URL field in your comments form. Personally I would rather decide for myself what to look at or what not. Of course this is your website and you know what you can do with it. (Bet this won’t take long to get deleted.) And no, I’m not in the software business. Long as we’re making recommendations though, I use Mailwasher for spam control. Have a *#$@^& day. (My Yahoo mail has great spam control features too.)

By: Ex Cathedra

Ex Cathedra — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 13:41:55 +0000

Deceptive “Tech Websites”

According to Geek Central, Some “Tech Websites” Are Not What You Think They Are There’s at least one outfit based in Malta that has a string of websites that use the old scam of giving favorable reviews to products from…

By: Ex Cathedra

Ex Cathedra — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 13:40:38 +0000

Deceptive “Tech Websites”

According to Geek Central, Some “Tech Websites” Are Not What You Think They Are There’s at least one outfit in Malta that uses the old scam of giving favorable reviews to products from one corporation which (surprise, surprise) happens to…

By: Rev. Bob

Rev. Bob — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 03:19:46 +0000

A corporation doing whatever it can get away with to maximize shareholder value? Hate to tell you, but that's what corporations do. In fact, if GFI's neighbor, GFJ, were to set up some sites that gave honest reviews, their management deserves to be fired for improper stewardship of their shareholders' assets.

Corporations operate according to a wholly different set of values than you and I do, and that isn't just by chance, it's intrinsic: it's in the very nature of corporations.