So, yesterday I received an email in classic lomo.com style - written quite poorly, but if I understand from the email and a link I was forwarded to, they want to create an affiliate program for driving sales to their web site, but don’t have any real hard details (something about a payout of 1-20% based on the “quality” of your web site — do they mean adherence to HTML 3.2 standards? Lack of Javascript?Commented HTML code? Use of CSS?)

When I asked to be removed from their list, I received a somewhat defensive email from someone named James “CIA” Hunter:

Date: 7/25/02 2:47 PM

From: Lomolink

Subject: AW: AW: what’s this all about

how interesting!

i don’t really understand what you are writing here and on lomo.org.

but there is nothing automatically. what a nonsense. if you don’t

know it you have an link on your site http://www.kataan.org/

(or http://lomo.kataan.org/): “Comments? Send me email…” that’s it

and nothing more. and that we know your site, because you

are presenting lomo, is this a crime?

if you can not accept a “little bit” irony in an email, ok. no problem.

it’s your world and you are the boss in this world.

so long

james “CIA” hunter



Harvesting email addresses from web sites, then sending commercial email to them is NOT OK. As a matter of fact, in many countries, sending unsolicited, non opt-in commercial email is a crime. It is in violation of most internet service provider’s Terms of Service, as well. Send unsolicited commercial email to any of my email addresses, and your upstream internet service provider will receive a copy.

For more information, see:

http://www.cauce.org

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