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Feb 28, 2003 | 8:51 am

#16

arkangel

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Yup, same here. Two identical e-mails last nite.

Feb 28, 2003 | 9:11 am

#17

Alysia

Join Date: Feb 2001

Location: DC; US Gold

Posts: 3,139

Yup

Feb 28, 2003 | 10:55 am

#18

Efrem

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Join Date: May 1998

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Posts: 25,037

Got it, too. Fortunately, my e-mail software has a decent junk filter. It just learned one more criterion for junk.

Feb 28, 2003 | 11:52 am

#19

World20

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yup

Feb 28, 2003 | 12:56 pm

#20

Randy Petersen

Founder of FlyerTalk

Join Date: May 1998

Location: Colorado Springs, CO

Posts: 6,540

I did not, which means they must have been selective.

If someone will forward the email to me so i can track this down, i'll report back on what shape the person is in after i get done with them.

Thanks for the heads up.

[email protected]

Feb 28, 2003 | 1:09 pm

#21

mauld

Join Date: May 1999

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Me too, this morning. Interesting I get that e mail, but am still waiting for my 'targeted' Starwood promo to show up

Feb 28, 2003 | 1:28 pm

#22

gleff

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copy sent to randy

Feb 28, 2003 | 1:53 pm

#23

writetorich

Join Date: Nov 2000

Location: New York City, United States.

Posts: 2,736

Yeah, I got it.

[This message has been edited by writetorich (edited 02-28-2003).]

Feb 28, 2003 | 3:19 pm

#24

sg7z

Join Date: May 2002

Location: woodbridge, va usa

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Posts: 357

I am one of the chosen, I got two

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HH Gold

Feb 28, 2003 | 4:03 pm

#25

Randy Petersen

Founder of FlyerTalk

Join Date: May 1998

Location: Colorado Springs, CO

Posts: 6,540

You have all been wonderful with help.

I have had contact with Adrian Smith, the CEO of tripaudit.com, the company that owns that particular Web site hotelratedesk.com as well as the partiucular employee, Maira, that was responsible for this. They express to you all their apologies and have assured me that they made a mistake and were over-zealous - FlyerTalk being simply too tempting. I have asked that any email addresses taken from FlyerTalk be destroyed.

Again thanks for all your help and concern on this matter. The member account for those involved has been cancelled.

Feb 28, 2003 | 4:28 pm

#26

Randy Petersen

Founder of FlyerTalk

Join Date: May 1998

Location: Colorado Springs, CO

Posts: 6,540

Feb 28, 2003 | 4:36 pm

#27

mpc1

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Randy

Thanks for your action in following this up.

mpc1

Feb 28, 2003 | 7:05 pm

#28

VPescado

Join Date: Nov 2002

Location: SQL

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Posts: 3,170

Quote:

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Randy Petersen:
I have asked that any email addresses taken from FlyerTalk be destroyed.</font>

Isn't that a bit of overkill? Perhaps having them deleting their list of addresses harvested from FT might be reasonable, but I'm not sure that actually destroying the email addresses is warrented.