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Evesham spam
An interesting read for those who may consider buying from evesham.
http://www.softrock.co.uk/spam/spammers/spam001.html -- Andrew The above address IS valid but will go straight to my spambin. If you want to make sure I read your email unmunge |
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In uk.comp.vendors, Andrew waffled thusly:
An interesting read for those who may consider buying from evesham. http://www.softrock.co.uk/spam/spammers/spam001.html Interesting but only slightly surprising. Their cluelessness does seem to increase with each passing year. What's the general consensus in uk.comp.vendors regarding Evesham micros? I've only had one experience with them, when my brother purchased a PC from them (against my advice) a couple of years ago. It kept on overheating due to an inadequate HS & fan on an AthlonTB processor (notorious for going nuclear) and the dodgy motherboard still causes problems with Windows (then ME, now XP). Technical support were hostile - despite my diplomacy - and I ended up sorting out the processor problem myself: thermal paste and a coppermine fan resulted in a 30C temperature decrease. -- Lee J. Moore http://cafe-society.com |
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In uk.comp.vendors, Malev waffled thusly:
There was a long thread last week in uk.people.consumers about Evesham Micros. The only one I could see from last week was 13 articles long. No bitching competitors in the thread. As opposed to what? The factual allegations in this thread? Good report. One person has bought from them. One person had not had "significant dealings" with them. I don't think the OP was wise to consider them 'safe' based on that. -- Lee J. Moore http://cafe-society.com |
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"Lee J. Moore" wrote in message ... In uk.comp.vendors, Malev waffled thusly: There was a long thread last week in uk.people.consumers about Evesham Micros. The only one I could see from last week was 13 articles long. No bitching competitors in the thread. As opposed to what? The factual allegations in this thread? Good report. One person has bought from them. One person had not had "significant dealings" with them. I don't think the OP was wise to consider them 'safe' based on that. -- Lee J. Moore http://cafe-society.com I've always found Evesham to be a decent company and have recommended them to friends and customers for several years now, without any problems at all. SLP |
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"SLP" writes:
[...] I've always found Evesham to be a decent company and have recommended them to friends and customers for several years now, without any problems at all. As a vendor as far as I know they're fine. A couple of people at work are using Evesham boxes, and they work fine. Personally I won't deal with them because they spammed me recently. One was to an email address that's not an email address---it's a message-id from an email I sent to the gcc mailing list years ago, so obviously it came from web scraping. So either Evesham does web scaping itself or, more likely, they buy mailing lists from scumbags who do. In either case, I want nothing to do with a company that does that. However, as far as I know they'll deliver decent kit at a decent price when they say they will, so in those terms they're probably a good company to buy from. Depends what your standards are. |
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"Andrew Bell" writes:
An interesting read for those who may consider buying from evesham. http://www.softrock.co.uk/spam/spammers/spam001.html I got the same. I hadn't noticed lowestonweb, but searching my mail logs I see I received a couple from that address, too. Inspired by this story, http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/67/32764.html, I checked the ASA's website, http://www.asa.org.uk/index.asp. It does appear that they claim to regulate email advertising, and that from 4 March 2003 explicit consent is required before sending email (or SMS) advertisements to consumers. (There are exceptions for when you're already a customer. Details are in section 43 of the CAP Code, DIRECT MARKETING RULES-DATABASE PRACTICE.) So I've made a complaint. I'm not suggesting that everyone immediately complain about Evesham (I don't know how the ASA works, so I'm not sure that that would be useful). I merely mention that it looks like the UK is opt-in, so for the 0.1% or so of spam that actually comes from an identifiable UK company, the Advertising Standards Authority might be able to give them a rap on the knuckles. |
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Bruce Stephens wrote in
: Personally I won't deal with them because they spammed me recently. One was to an email address that's not an email address---it's a message-id from an email I sent to the gcc mailing list years ago, so obviously it came from web scraping. So either Evesham does web scaping itself or, more likely, they buy mailing lists from scumbags who do. In either case, I want nothing to do with a company that does that. They spammed me, and I've *NEVER* bought from them. The spam run (which was automatically classed as such by Thunderbird's Bayesian filter) was sent from a server which appears on first glance to be run by Evesham itself, and the address it was sent to can only have been obtained by a dictionary attack run (since it has never been posted in that form). It appears they have bought a very, very tainted list; of course, buying a list itself is a no-no. The fools. -- Ross Tregaskis online diary @ http://www.inquisitor.myinternetpass.com |
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"Andrew Bell" wrote in
message ... An interesting read for those who may consider buying from evesham. http://www.softrock.co.uk/spam/spammers/spam001.html I got it just now and this was an interesting read. Subjected "September offers from Evesham Technology" Thanks for sharing it. -- - Tony Sutton - http://www.hyperboard.co.uk - The Biggest Message Board! ------------------------------------------------------------- Columbus had a fourth ship... it sailed over the edge. ------------------------------------------------------------- |
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My note to Evesham tonight:
CC: , , , , Enough of this spam. Do you realise how much your (reasonably good) reputation is being tarnished by this recent bout of spamming, both from Evesham and your rather dubious sounding affiliate 'lowestonweb'? Regarding this bit: 'If you have received this email in error then please accept our sincerest apologies, this error may have occurred through another person entering your email address or a database provider not washing their data correctly.' Well what a load of crap. The address you sent this spam to, , has only ever been used for usenet posting, therefore you could only have got hold of it either by trawling newsgroups, or by buying a list from a spamhaus who trawls news groups for you. You could not have acquired this address by legitimate means. If you consider that you did acquire this address by legitimate means please let me know who provided it, since I have never been a customer of yours. I personally never do business with spammers, that now includes you. In the past, when I have (not infrequently) been asked for an opinion of your company, I have always said that you are a reputable outfit. In future I shall think twice about that. I look forward to your response and apology. cc uk.comp.vendors (from where you presumably trawled my address) ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: September offers from Evesham Technology From: Date: Wed, September 17, 2003 23:03 To: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- OFFER OF THE MONTH! Axis 2600+ Special Powerful home/office PC system with software, digital camera and DVD writer AMD Athlon XP 2600+ Processor 512MB DDR RAM 80GB UDMA 100 hard drive with buffer 64MB unified nVidia GeForce4 graphics 15" Philips 150S4FG flat panel monitor NEW! Philips 4x +RW DVD writer Microsoft Works Suite 2003 software Olympus C150 digital camera From only £999 inc VAT http://www.evesham.com/links.asp?l=2...4-5BA3500A7B3C ------------------------------------------------------------------- CATCH SWAGMAN FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN A WEEKEND FOR 2 IN PRAGUE! One of the Desktop PCs advertised on the evesham website is about to be stolen. All you have to do is find the system that he is targeting and let us know. If you answer correctly, we will enter you into a prize draw to win a weekend in Prague. Visit here to start you search http://www.evesham.com/links.asp?l=7...1-A300FF20E7A6 ------------------------------------------------------------------- VOYAGER 5915 C2.0 Special Everything you could do on your desktop, you can now do on the move. Mobile Intel Celeron 2.0GHz processor 512MB DDR RAM 30GB hard disk 14" TFT screen DVD/CD/CR combo drive From only £899 inc VAT http://www.evesham.com/links.asp?l=5...A-7F77EF47948C ------------------------------------------------------------------- EVOLUTION BLUE LIGHTNING 2.8 The ultimate gaming system. Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz processor 1GB DDR RAM 120GB hard disk 128MB DDR ATI Radeon 9600 graphics 19" Viewsonic CRT display CD-RW drive DVD-ROM drive Sound Blaster Audigy2 6.1 6700 speakers From only £1199 inc VAT http://www.evesham.com/links.asp?l=5...1-EB6F867B47CD ------------------------------------------------------------------- AXIS 2600+ MKR Award winning desktop PC AMD Athlon XP 2600+ processor 512MB DDR RAM 120GB hard disk DVD burner CDRW drive ATI Radeon 9600 graphics 17" TFT display Cordless keyboard & mouse Creative Inspire 5.1 speakers From £1174 inc VAT http://www.evesham.com/links.asp?l=6...0-F064B8627AEE ------------------------------------------------------------------- MOVIE EDITION PRO 5 Video editing solution Intel Pentium 4 2.6GHz processor 512MB DDR RAM 120GB hard disk 64MB Edition Pro AGP card Pinnacle Edition Pro 5 19" Viewsonic CRT display Sony CD-RW drive I-Trigue 2.1 3300 speakers From £1869 inc VAT http://www.evesham.com/links.asp?l=4...A-AADA6AF0C96A ------------------------------------------------------------------- VOYAGE 5815+ 2.6 An all round powerful machine Intel Pentium 4 2.66GHz 512MB RAM 40GB hard disk 15" TFT display 64MB VGA nVIDIA GeForce4 graphics 3yr warranty package From £1099 inc VAT http://www.evesham.com/links.asp?l=7...2-978350FA4165 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 64 BIT COMPUTING FROM AMD! Fast today. Faster tomorrow. Available from September 23rd from Evesham Technology Visit here for more info http://www.evesham.com/links.asp?l=E...2-DF2C5B61D4F3 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Desktop PCs http://www.evesham.com/links.asp?l=9...A-3121856AB841 Notebook PCs http://www.evesham.com/links.asp?l=3...D-316B0BADB20C Peripherals http://www.evesham.com/links.asp?l=D...B-E1418D9CAAB6 Clearance http://www.evesham.com/links.asp?l=3...5-63A829465C99 Auction http://www.evesham.com/links.asp?l=5...B-D77013EF0EA2 ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have received this email in error then please accept our sincerest apologies, this error may have occurred through another person entering your email address or a database provider not washing their data correctly. If you no longer wish to receive promotional email from Evesham Technology, go to http://www.evesham.com/email.asp?cid=550501 Any prices quoted are in UK pounds sterling and are exclusive of delivery. Terms and conditions are available from the Evesham Technology website (http://www.evesham.com). |
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In article , peter
writes cc uk.comp.vendors (from where you presumably trawled my address) Not sure about that, I got the "September Offer" spam mail from them as well but it was addressed to my wifes email address (on her own domain) which she only uses on about 3 newsgroups all of which are horse related. Neither of us has ever bought anything from Evesham (nor are we likely to now!) and the address is only used for private emails, all the web based purchasing/enquiries etc. are done using one of my addresses. Kind Regards, Jeff Davison Display Systems Consultants UK |
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