Canadian Broadband → Re: Primus Canada cracking down on usage?

Agree totally. That email came from Primus. All the headers, the routing, the odd things in the links all match the 'legit' email I got from Primus about TalkBroadband. Unless they're implying that someone else sent spam about Primus TalkBroadband?

Yes, I'd expect to be given a call, or at least an email with my NAME in it (actually, the TalkBroadband email had my name in it, so why the heck couldn't this one?). But, like you, I've found them useless on the phone - heck it took a month for them to get us online and they buggered up the email accounts as well. When my wife kept phoning them to find out what was going on, they'd hang up on her! They gave us a month free though as compensation, which was nice.

Maybe we'll all get the chop on the 14th & the call centre just don't know about it yet. Or maybe they're setting up a disconnection system and something just leaked out. My suspicion is the latter.

The spamming sounds easy in theory but that would result in their servers being hit by 1000s of simultaneous identical spam emails. Remember that everything's automatically run through Postini for spam filtering. I'm sure it would spot that and erase the lot of it.

What is the unique tracking number on the webbug you received? If it's unique to mine, than that adds further evidence this is a legitimate list-server-served email.

Mine is "http://lists.primus.ca/db/694366/157908/1.gif"

If they are identical, that would suggest this just might be some elaborate spam.

I'm similar - 157xxx and the rest of the URL is the same.

The 157xxx number matches the number in the AUP link - but oddly not the number in the "To" header. So it would seem that the 157xxx is a tracking number unique to the list-server. But not directly related to the customer number.

I'm guessing they've made a mailing list to mail out to the high volume users.