FreedomBox

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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Hello,
I had planned to keep quiet on this issue seeing in how I have never 
used Freedom Box. However, I feel compelled to speak as to their 
marketing stratigy. I too ended up on their sales list without ever 
making so much as an enquirey about their product. I have several blind 
friends who had the same thing happen to them. It would appear that FB 
took the addresses of people from other mailing lists and added these 
addresses to their own marketing list. This is not ok, and in fact, I 
refer to such mailings as spam. It is true that they removed me from 
their list when I asked them to, but they never should have added me in 
the first place.

Equal causes can produce very unequal effects.
Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm at pcdesk.net
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And so it came to pass that on Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Keith Watson said

> Cheryl,
>
> OK, so I have never had and never will have a use for anything
> that company has to offer. The biggest and most compelling reason
> is because of their marketing tactics. The only way that they
> could have possibly sent email to a particular email address that
> I have is that they got it from a PRIVATE, note the caps, beta
> list that I am on. PRIVATE means private and for them to have
> gotten my email address they had to be on this list as well. This
> goes against the rules of the list and is quite rude. I would not
> expect spam from a PRIVATE beta list and I should never have
> received any, yet I did. This is only one of the reasons that I
> will never use them.
>
> Oh, and if you don't think that they are tracking your surfing
> habits, look up the definition of a proxy. As soon as you log
> onto their service you are logging onto a proxy. This means that
> they can dictate where you go and also track your movements. Matt
> may claim that they are not doing any tracking, but from past
> experience with others in the company I have no doubt that it is
> being done, whether he knows about it or not.
>
> Just my two cents.
>
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