Comments on: Sloan Seymour, President of Ziff Davis, Spammer Extraordinaire

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Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:00:36 +0000

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By: zd guy

zd guy — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:51:41 +0000

I’m one of the addresses on this message and am unusual in that I write for both companies. I’m a freelancer so I’m ont an employee and I have no idea how to stop the newsletters.

But you should know that most of the complaints I receive are for newsletters from Ziff Davis Enterprise, publishers of eWEEK, Basline, CIO Insight, etc. Their domain is ziffdavisenterprise.com

The e-mail list you have above is all ziffdavis.com addresses. This is the domain for Ziff Davis Media, publishers of PCMag, EGM, 1Up, etc. Completely differnent company, completely differnt newsletter staffs, in other words your e-mails are definitely going to the wrong people,

To make matters worse, this address list appears to have been constructed before ZDE was split off, so many of the people in it are actually ZDE employees, but their ziffdavis.com addresses don’t work anymore, So those never get delivered. Plus I can see at least 8 people who just don’t work there anymore, and I’m sure there are more.

Just click the damn unsubscribe link at the bottom of the message. You won’t do any better than that.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:57:45 +0000

Please, everyone, report them via spamcop and razor. Let’s vote with the best tools we can so we can keep most of these from getting to our inbox.

By: Glenn Johnson

Glenn Johnson — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:06:33 +0000

Hello all Spam recipients from Ziff Davis. Does Ziff Davis sell your email address? I too sent a very polite email to Ziff Davis and the spam stopped temporarily. Now suddenly I am getting blasted again full force! I let them know it was back and very quickly received many more ZD trash seminar emails. And have noticed many other spam emails suddenly increase. Perhaps the only way to deal with this situation is to contact their partners who are involved in their seminars + inform them that Ziff Davis causes pain and suffering to IT professionals by their shameless use of email spam and email address piracy. I wonder if that would curtail their unwanted spamming?

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EdBlog » Blog Archive » Ziff Davis Spam Part III: The Solution? — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:54:37 +0000

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By: Bryan Eisenberg

Bryan Eisenberg — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:51:38 +0000

Matthew,

Thank you for the correction. However, I am quoting James’ comment from a previous post and I don’t think it would be appropriate to change his words. He made up this list by looking all over the web for any ZD email addresses (I guess past and current). I am sure things are better at HFM US.

By: Matthew Rothenberg

Matthew Rothenberg — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:02:12 +0000

For the record, I notice I’m on your list … Only I haven’t been at Ziff since May 2006!

Oh, and Sloan Seymour is a he, not a she.

Matthew Rothenberg
VP/Editorial Director
Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., Inc.

By: Don Morris

Don Morris — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:58:31 +0000

I wish I could have had this info several months ago. It seems the spam has stopped now, but unsubscribe links definitely weren’t working until recently.

By: Greg Kirkham

Greg Kirkham — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:06:36 +0000

I forgot to mention; the spam continues.

By: Greg Kirkham

Greg Kirkham — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:04:05 +0000

I sent e-mails to their abuse@ and postmaster@ addresses stating that I had unsubscribed via the link provided in their messages, and that the spam continued. I promptly received a letter from their “Online Audience Development Team” apologizing for the inconvenience, and that the messages would stop within 10 business days.

I just found your article above. Seems I am in good company, eh?

By: Manfred

Manfred — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:09:21 +0000

Thanks for the great information that kind of mail may help as well with other spammers!?

By: Mary’s Blog » The Bigger They Are, The Dumber They Are

Mary’s Blog » The Bigger They Are, The Dumber They Are — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:53:08 +0000

[...] Ziff-Davis picked the wrong people to spam. Why, oh why is it so hard to understand? People DO NOT want to be at the end of a cold email blast. [...]

By: Mary Schmidt

Mary Schmidt — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:37:15 +0000

Thanks for the tip. And, companies should also note – DO NOT have the “yes I want to receive” (e-letters, special offers, blah-blahh, blahhh) box automatically checked if I’m sending you an email inquiry or question. (And, really, don’t force people to give everything, including fax number, snail mail address and type of company before you’ll even let the email go through your “customer service” contact system. Grrr.)

Oh dear. I feel another blog post coming on.