colorbars
join:2003-03-20
USA
| DSLi are spamming scumbags
These people are dirtbags. (I'd use stronger language, but it would probably be deleted) I have a private domain in the form {firstname}{lastname}.com and these bottom feeders figured out that I probably used {firstname}@ as my email address and spammed it. Either that or they somehow got it out of one of about two dozen people on the planet that know the username. I seriously doubt the latter was the case, since I made each promise never to reveal it. Thus, by process of elimination I figure they were so intent on spamming me that they devoted special attention to figuring out what my email address was. Bad move.
There's no way in hell I'm going to buy something from any louses like this that spam me. I take the Boulder Pledge (»www.panix.com/~tbetz/boulder.shtml) very seriously. I sincerely hope these slimy devils go out of business very quickly.
Any representatives from DSLi want to pull an explanation out of their hindquarters for this one? I'd love to hear a good story. |
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Doctor Olds
I Need A Remedy For What's Ailing Me.
Premium,VIP
join:2001-04-19
1970 442 W30
clubs:
| I got Spam today for "Approved for VoIP" from dsli.com, too Is that what you got?
WTH??
It came with all these attachments.
Shameful!!!
I sent it to SpamCop.  |
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Mike
Premium,Mod
join:2000-09-17
Pittsburgh, PA
clubs: 
 ·Verizon FIOS
 ·Verizon Online DSL
Host:
Site Tools
W.O.W.
FairPoint
World of Warcraft
Alltel Axcess
| reply to colorbars
I am thinking of the same thing too.I got some of those.. somehow...
Amusingly enough, DSLi wasn't smart enough to generate a 1 time e-mail address to send that "offer" but rather used a single, obvious one. If someone replies to it. It hits everyone on that list. I have 8 e-mails just FROM that e-mail about people saying "let me off!"
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I call for a separation of church and idiot. - Lewis Black
What this country needs is a good five dollar plasma weapon. |
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colorbars
join:2003-03-20
USA
| reply to colorbars
Mine had the subject: You Qualify for VoIP, but it's probably similar. It's in ****ing HTML that doesn't render (that alone should be enough to show that they don't have a clue), so I don't know what the attached graphics are. I'll bet it's similar though.
The only way I could see someone replying and all of them going to the list was if someone used "reply to all". The From line on mine is voipsupport@dsli.com and the To is offers@dsli.com. That's fairly common though.
DSLi needs to remember Rule #4 - The natural course of a spamming business is to go bankrupt.
See »angel.1jh.com/nanae/rulesofspam.shtml Can't happen too soon. |
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lwood1
join:2003-01-23
Kennesaw, GA | reply to colorbars
Only 8? I've got about 30. Also, note the lack of a remove link...
I'd love to see how many hundreds of people are in the BCC lines on these. Time to start null-routing dsli at the edge/peering points just like any other spammer. |
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Mike
Premium,Mod
join:2000-09-17
Pittsburgh, PA
clubs: | reply to colorbars
Yeah it's fun waking up to 26 e-mails all saying "wtf, let me go"
front page news time |
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kiprainey
join:2001-07-26
Chicago, IL
1 edit |  reply to colorbars
I had the same experience with these dirtbags. Not only do I get their awful spam, but I get every reply message from pissed off people begging to be removed from the list.
I thought I was done with these scumbags years ago when I filed a Better Business Bureau complaint against them (see my review: »Review of DSLi by kiprainey )
What a horrible company. |
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Mike
Premium,Mod
join:2000-09-17
Pittsburgh, PA
clubs:
·Verizon FIOS
·Verizon Online DSL
Host:
Site Tools
W.O.W.
FairPoint
World of Warcraft
Alltel Axcess
| reply to colorbars
My inbox is now full of.. idiots now, that have not discovered what other people have told them about not sending an e-mail to that specifc address.
Ever since that one sys-admin told everyone to stop replying, everyone beyond that mark is an idiot.
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I call for a separation of church and idiot. - Lewis Black
What this country needs is a good five dollar plasma weapon. |
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kenyg
join:2001-02-09
Hatboro, PA | reply to colorbars
I had 123 in my inbox - and about 80 per hour coming in.
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aye aye captain! |
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MadDog3057
Ex Astris, Scientia
Premium
join:2002-02-26
Miami, FL
| reply to colorbars
I've gotten quite a bunch of these as well. DSLi doesn't seem like the kind of company to spam, specially since they've had my e-mail for years and never sent me anything like this until now. From the looks of this to me, it looks like it was a marketing idea gone wrong. Specially with the way it was done and everyone getting hundreds of replies from people you don't even know!
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"The only thing that’s worse than being blind is having sight but no vision." |
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ChaosZeto
join:2002-06-26
Ferndale, WA
| If that is so, maybe we should just look into who let this go, for all we know it just could be a rogue employee or maybe a virus fowarding a bunch of these emails, unlikely though, I think its plain old spamvertising. Im looking at the website to get a list of names to call and tell.
I heard that when you reply to them you email everyone on the list, I guess 1st step is not to reply to these guys, I mean it dosn't work with other spammers why would it work for DSLi? |
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Mike
Premium,Mod
join:2000-09-17
Pittsburgh, PA
clubs: | we know a definite physical location to have our extraction teams helo-drop...  |
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Doctor Olds
I Need A Remedy For What's Ailing Me.
Premium,VIP
join:2001-04-19
1970 442 W30
clubs:
| reply to colorbars
Another One!!!! 
Return-Path: <voipsupport@dsli.com>
Received: from mail.dsli.com ([209.42.47.69])
by mx-a065a01.pas.sa.earthlink.net (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 1clSBg3BS3NZFpr0
Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:20:24 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from smtp.dsli.com [209.42.46.118] by mail.dsli.com with ESMTP
(SMTPD32-8.12) id AA58946A02A0; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:52:56 -0400
Received: from Darkcom152 [209.42.47.55] by smtp.dsli.com with ESMTP
(SMTPD32-8.12) id A8DA992A014C; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:46:34 -0400
From: "VoIP Support" <voipsupport@dsli.com>
To: <offers@dsli.com>
Subject: You Qualify for VoIP
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:41:32 -0400
Message-ID: <000001c4b6fe$5456f570$9d21a8c0@dslicorp.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/related;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0001_01C4B6DC.CD455570"
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627
Importance: Normal
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441
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ChaosZeto
join:2002-06-26
Ferndale, WA
| Im tired of having my inbox spammed, I had delt with these guys before when I was in Miami. They aren't too enthusiastic to keep their DSL customers for some reason, now they bombard me with spam, im not even in Miami, they are desprate because they cant compete against other VoIP competition.
From research they had their chance to make it big, but I guess their effort to actually correct the fatal things that held them back are sub-par. Now they do this desperation to get customers, on Monday im going to talk to sales/marketing and get in conctact with the guy in charge of marketing at any cost using any method. I think everyone should give these guys a call, like they give us emails and stir something up.
My Goal: Contact the people from their website in the management section. |
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kenyg
join:2001-02-09
Hatboro, PA | reply to colorbars
Yes, I agree. I will be calling them too. I had over 300 emails in my inbox this morning.
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aye aye captain! |
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kenyg
join:2001-02-09
Hatboro, PA | - for a while I was forwarding their spam to abuse@dsli.com. Then they started bouncing back to me with the message, "mailbox full"
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aye aye captain! |
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ropeguru
Premium
join:2001-01-25
Bridgeport, WV
clubs: | reply to colorbars
What is funny are all of you that are getting this spam don't even live in FL. DSLi a couple of years ago pulled all of their national service.
I am glad I dumped them!!! |
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Mike
Premium,Mod
join:2000-09-17
Pittsburgh, PA
clubs: | the only relationship I have with DSLi is.... how did they get my home e-mail address? |
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morph3ous
Premium
join:2002-05-16
Miami, FL
·AT&T Southeast
 ·Comcast Formerly ..
| reply to colorbars
DSLi for the most part is a reputable company. I had a friend who worked there once. I agree that this is likely a marketing idea gone wrong, really wrong. I have emailed the chairman of DSLi's board of directors and hope that the situation will be resolved shortly.
(I do not work for DSLi by the way)
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My Mac Commentary | Morph3ous.net | Bustin, Inc. |
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John Q Public
@netrox.net
| reply to colorbars
I got the original "offer" the other day... along with a barrage of replies from many unhappy people. Now, I just received a fresh "offer" just like the first one. These people need to get their heads out of their ass.
I dumped these jokers as an ISP months ago. |
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