Comments on: We love our members. I have proof. https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2007/03/20/we-love-our-members-i-have-proof/ A blog from the staff at NearlyFreeSpeech.NET. Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:55:43 +0000 hourly 1 By: nordstar https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2007/03/20/we-love-our-members-i-have-proof/#comment-2073 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:55:43 +0000 http://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2007/03/20/we-love-our-members-i-have-proof/#comment-2073 Back in 2000 I worked for a Web-Hosting company that was pretty small. One day will readng the mail in one of the support emails for our company I found a smiliar email. It was from a russian webmaster trying to sell us his services for $14 an hour, at the time our web-design people and my self included where making slightly less then that. The email was pass around at work and we all laughed. It was the first email I saved in to a folder of somewhat similar emails that just where to good to just throw away. Good Times…

]]> By: Sergey https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2007/03/20/we-love-our-members-i-have-proof/#comment-2003 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:14:12 +0000 http://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2007/03/20/we-love-our-members-i-have-proof/#comment-2003 That’s true, I haven’t seen better support anywhere.

]]> By: Douglas Muth https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2007/03/20/we-love-our-members-i-have-proof/#comment-1957 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:40:08 +0000 http://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2007/03/20/we-love-our-members-i-have-proof/#comment-1957 Related reading: http://spamusement.com/

It consists of cartoons drawn from the strange subject lines found in real spams.

— Doug

]]> By: jdw https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2007/03/20/we-love-our-members-i-have-proof/#comment-1956 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:14:52 +0000 http://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2007/03/20/we-love-our-members-i-have-proof/#comment-1956 Hey Sergey! I do completely understand your point of view.

If I have to disagree with you anywhere, it’s whether their obvious desperation in any way justifies spamming. It does not. And at a company like ours, reviling spam and vilifying spammers is part of the job.

Even so, we probably could have let it go, as we do with the hundreds of other spam messages we receive every day. What got this one special treatment was the cheeky, towering irony of spamming about their qualifications to run email servers. That’s just a little too much.

As far as their offshore status, that’s not really a factor to me. This is the Internet; we’re a global company with customers, contractors and vendors all over the world and we would not have it any other way.

Still, I hate letting our members down and I apologize if the tongue-in-cheek nature of this post came across to you (or anyone else) as anything other than a reminder of three things:

1) We really, really hate spam.

2) We really, really love our members.

3) We are committed to providing the highest quality support.

]]> By: Sergey https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2007/03/20/we-love-our-members-i-have-proof/#comment-1949 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:04:59 +0000 http://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2007/03/20/we-love-our-members-i-have-proof/#comment-1949 As much as I love your company I think this bullying was uncalled for. Spam is just spam and bragging of being head and shoulders above some desperate offshore company is still aiming too low. Sorry guys, didn’t like this one.

]]> By: ADB https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2007/03/20/we-love-our-members-i-have-proof/#comment-1938 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:35:48 +0000 http://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2007/03/20/we-love-our-members-i-have-proof/#comment-1938 Why am I not surprised that they also offer SEO services?

Thanks for being consistently awesome, NFSN. I can assure you the love is reciprocated :p

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