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Originally Posted by milkman dan
you have to be joking. You think anyone will fall for that SPAM? I guess you have to give the guy credit that he actualy listed a con :roll:
Since emailing a spammer to ask them to stop never acomplishes anything aside from 200 junk emails a day, I am going to hope a mod moves this to the "useless spam we don't care about" forum.
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Proporta is a real company with a good track record, so I doubt they'd spam.
Actually, I'm more inclined to believe that the guy is a newbie than a
real spammer. I mean, he
did do something useful by writing a review. :lol: I also don't see any affiliate link type of thing in the URL he posted. I suspect that he got some free screen protectors if he'd write a review about them and post it.
I've gotten similar offers. A company I hadn't previously heard of asked me if I was interested in reviewing some of their laser products. As my site deals with Pocket PCs, I said that I'd only review a product that was related to Pocket PCs, so I chose the
Infiniter XP II. I did the review and posted it on my Web site.
I also announced the review on other Pocket PC sites (in their Announcements sections, of course), but provided a link to my site. Plus, I don't post new threads for every update to my site. If I've posted an update notice in the past, I just put a new post in that thread. In addition, I don't announce every little change to my site, only major changes. Even then, I'll often batch updates and mention several changes in one post. You can see how I do things in the
"Silicon Valley Pocket PC Thoughts" thread.
My feeling is that most of us here are serious hobbyists and
want to get as much information as we can about our Pocket PCs. That's why I don't mind ads here or in Pocket PC Magazine -- they let me know about things I might not have heard about.
Given that, I don't have a problem with posting about a review of a new product. It's the way this is being done that bothers me.
Steve