[outages] sales critter Ben Reynolds

[Dan Brannon]

I mean I’m all for chasing off salespeople and all, and I love this list.  But sometimes….

“I’m annoyed I received one SPAM message.  Let’s spend the next 3 days sending 25 messages about the SPAM to the whole list so we can make sure it never happens again.”

It kinda seems like a cure that is worse than the disease…

From: Outages <outages-bounces at outages.org> On Behalf Of Tanner Ryan via Outages
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 10:27 AM
To: Erik Lentz <erik.lentz at gmail.com>
Cc: outages at outages.org
Subject: Re: [outages] sales critter Ben Reynolds

I messaged Ben on LinkedIn. I got the following response:

"Man, to be honest, I’m not responsible for acquiring potential prospect contact information. I am in sales and follow up with current leads. I apologize if all those emails got on our mailing list. Just respond “stop” and I’ll get whoever taken off the list. The response emails come to me.”

I’m under the impression that he himself did not do this but rather someone who dumped the mailing list addresses as “leads”. If you do email Ben personally, please don’t be rude with him. Though someone at the company still did a very bad thing.


Best,
Tanner


On Oct 22, 2019, at 12:55, Erik Lentz via Outages <outages at outages.org<mailto:outages at outages.org>> wrote:

After emailing the group yesterday, Ben Reynolds contacted me as well. Can he be banned, please?

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 9:37 AM DaZZa via Outages <outages at outages.org<mailto:outages at outages.org>> wrote:
Count me in too. Gmail was kind enough to identify it for what it was and send it to spam.

On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 at 00:35, Christopher Conley via Outages <outages at outages.org<mailto:outages at outages.org>> wrote:
Late to the party, but I received it as well. Exact same message (attached) as OP. Banhammer time?

Also, hi spammy Ben! Bye spammy Ben.

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From: Outages <outages-bounces at outages.org<mailto:outages-bounces at outages.org>> On Behalf Of Matt Harris via Outages
Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2019 10:14 PM
To: Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net<mailto:jared at puck.nether.net>>
Cc: Shawn Solomon via Outages <outages at outages.org<mailto:outages at outages.org>>
Subject: Re: [outages] sales critter Ben Reynolds

I can confirm that I also received spam from that organization. Can't remember if the name was the same.


On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 11:54 AM Jared Mauch via Outages <outages at outages.org<mailto:outages at outages.org>> wrote:
This person spammed all sorts of weird addresses for projects that I run (eg: Open Resolver) so clearly has no clue.

That domain is currently banned on my mail server so it’s unlikely they can get anything else through.

- Jared

> On Oct 19, 2019, at 12:37 PM, PE via Outages <outages at outages.org<mailto:outages at outages.org>> wrote:
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> I'm sure many of us got email from this critter, since he seems to be
> scraping posts to get email addrs to annoy with spam.
>
> List moderator: can you please yank them?
>
> List: got another company/critter to add to the "never do business with
> ever list"...
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