[muglo] MacWorld scam
- From: Doug Bale <dougbale@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: MUGLO <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 11:34:04 -0400
I have an online subscription to MacWorld. The subscription agreement says they
will not give my e-mail address to anyone else. Today I received an e-mail for
an app-simulationt program called StudioMX, produced by company called iris.com
A disclaimer at the bottom of the ad says:
This email was sent from Macworld. Your email address has not been shared with
iRise. If you wish to have your email address excluded from future mailings
containing promotional content from iRise, please send an email to
visualize@xxxxxxxxx with 'Opt Out' in the subject line.
In effect, MacWorld isn't giving my e-mail address to iris, but is sending me
unwanted ads on iris's behalf and telling me I can stop iris asking them to do
so by e-mailing iris directly, thus giving it the e-mail address I've always
wanted it not to have.
(Yes, I know, I can filter out the damned e-mails so that I never have to see
another one. And I will. I just wish, as a longtime journalist and a sometime
magazine publisher, that it was still possible to think my own trade hadn't
fallen into the hands of liars, hypocrites and cheats.
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