it seemed to be part of some larger 'communication and marketing' package he was subscribed to. I was getting monthly email updates, etc - ghostwritten by someone else. It wasn't bad, but video responses to everything was annoying. It felt like he was intentionally trying to hide something.
He sent me some "sources" in a private google drive link that was access restricted and required me to enter email address to request access -- which I wasn't going to do, as said personal also makes his living doing multilevel marketing and as a "life coach"; not a contact list I have any desire to be on.
The spamming part really bugged me too. It seemed like he harvested these emails rather than any form of opt-in. This seems like bad science in general.
Apparently they have IRC logs of him first talking about selling the information to spammers or using it to go phishing, which makes it a little worse.
yeah, but it looks like he set it up waaaaaaaaaaaay back (like before the eternal September) solely in order to get a rise out of emailing people back. Then the internet blew up and broke his email.
I'm sure he was inundated with people wanting to buy it, license it, claim the made it, asking for tips, etc. I'd imagine this kind of thing basically ruins your email address.
Then when he said he didn't like the attention, more hate came. Then when he said he was pulling it, death threats came.
Reminds me of people who win the lottery. All their friends just want something, charities start bugging them, they can't be left alone.
The author of this article came across as a major creep to me. They guy checks emails from 6 months ago and keeps going back to her blog to verify stuff....WTF? I'd be more concerned about this guy than her silly affiliate links.
I'm reading the transcript of the video and he talks about a form of attack where fake emails are sent from spoofy addresses demanding positive review takedowns and making legal threats. I wonder if that's a possible explanation of the life shield email he got.
In the seomoz article find "It's even more terrifying, but they sent fake emails" to get to the relevant part.
My reading was that he actually he HAD an opt-in/curated list just hadn't removed the bounces and other detritus the list had generated over time. I didn't get any impression that he was spamming people, the problems were all bounces gmail/yahoo "mark as spam".
Well uh, he emailed every customer about it. He also emailed every customer about his previous Medium article, about a different controversy, earlier this year (I hadn't known about it until seeing the email).
Thanks for the link! I don't know, he asked for information initially, I sent him a reply almost immediately and then he just never replied. I don't know if my messages end up in spam, it doesn't seem very likely that he's getting them and just ignoring me..
I don't. I think the gist of it was a YouTuber instructing probably-younger, less-experienced people to issue spammy PRs (e.g. small update to READMEs).
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