<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I messaged Ben on LinkedIn. I got the following response:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"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.”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">Tanner</div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 22, 2019, at 12:55, Erik Lentz via Outages <<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org" class="">outages@outages.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">After emailing the group yesterday, Ben Reynolds contacted me as well. Can he be banned, please?<br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 9:37 AM DaZZa via Outages <<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org" class="">outages@outages.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">Count me in too. Gmail was kind enough to identify it for what it was and send it to spam.<br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 at 00:35, Christopher Conley via Outages <<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org" target="_blank" class="">outages@outages.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">Late to the party, but I received it as well. Exact same message (attached) as OP. Banhammer time?<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Also, hi spammy Ben! Bye spammy Ben.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;" class="">--<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;" class="">Christopher Conley<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;" class="">Systems Administrator |</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class="">
<span style="color:rgb(255,61,0)" class="">Fors Marsh Group</span><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;" class="">1010 N. Glebe Rd, Suite 510<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;" class="">Arlington, VA 22201<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b class="">From:</b> Outages <<a href="mailto:outages-bounces@outages.org" target="_blank" class="">outages-bounces@outages.org</a>> <b class="">On Behalf Of
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<b class="">Sent:</b> Saturday, October 19, 2019 10:14 PM<br class="">
<b class="">To:</b> Jared Mauch <<a href="mailto:jared@puck.nether.net" target="_blank" class="">jared@puck.nether.net</a>><br class="">
<b class="">Cc:</b> Shawn Solomon via Outages <<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org" target="_blank" class="">outages@outages.org</a>><br class="">
<b class="">Subject:</b> Re: [outages] sales critter Ben Reynolds<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p>
<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">I can confirm that I also received spam from that organization. Can't remember if the name was the same. <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 11:54 AM Jared Mauch via Outages <<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org" target="_blank" class="">outages@outages.org</a>> wrote:<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
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