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Posted By: The Roadie <wcarton@flash.net> In Response To: Re: Emerald Passport Help (George Ballard)
Thursday, 27 January 2005, at 8:01 p.m.
> Well here we go again, Emerald Passport bashing.
Well, what I meant to do was spammer bashing. :-)
I have to admit that non-spamming Emerald Passport members never get onto my radar screen. So ONLY the spammers come to my attention.
But the BIG PROBLEM is: Emerald Passport doesn't care to accept or investigate spam reports and jettison their abusive members. They want the business that the spammers bring in as well as the good members like you.
That taints the entire operation in my eyes. They can't have it both ways, just like an ISP or hosting company can't have both spamers and non-spammers as customers. Their peers won't stand for it, and will quickly decline to carry their traffic, and they get blacklisted. Then the non-spammer customers get up in arms, and the ISP either gets with the program and dumps the abusive customers, or they declare to all that they want spammer money more than they want to be thought of as good net-neighbors.
By doing nothing about their spamming members, Emerald Passport is declaring itself to be on the spammy side of the shared resource we depend on to remain useful.
> I am an Emerald Passport representative and I can take it
> because the bashing does not apply to me or my team. We do not spam,
> e-mail blast or anything illegal.
Great. Then you must not be part of the ATeam.
> EPI has a variety of people from all over the world and with this variety
> we, unfortunately, are going to get a few bad apples. Now why the rest of
> us get painted as spammers and e-mail blasters by so-called intelligent
> people, I don't know. Not really to fair to make a sweeping generalization
> that may apply only to a few people.
The Emerald Passport organization is at fault for not getting rid of the bad apples, or making sure they have an incentive to not spam in the first place. A few terminations might serve as an example to others.
But they do nothing. As if it's not their job to police their abusive members. We don't play that game anymore. Organizations who are lax on spammers acquire the reputation they deserve. Would you have it any other way?
Maybe you want to take this up with HQ?
If you hate being compared to your abusive colleagues, perhaps there's something you can do? "All it takes for Evil to prevail in this world is for enough good men to do nothing."
> We don't want people that are
> looking for a hobby in Emerald Passport. These people should stay with the
> $25 program that pays them a $10 commission and work it until they have
> 1000 people in their downline. Ha, ha. It ain't gonna happen. These are
> the spammers and blasters. But people keep trying.
And headquarters looks the other way and does nothing. See the problem?
Thanks so much for your defense of your way of promoting EPI. Sounds like you're doing the right thing. Now how about the bad apples? Why does EPI embrace them and look the other way?
Bill
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