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Post number 105

mathowie — Sat, 28 Aug 1999 15:59:13 -0800

In the 'Automakers that don't get it' file comes this. Saab USA is spamming people to tell them about their new cars. Great, thanks to Saab USA's inept marketing department, I'll never buy a Saab in my entire life.

By: blindambition

blindambition — Sat, 28 Aug 1999 19:37:48 -0800

my company does that, but we don't call it spam. its an "opt out mailing list" however, most of the employees think it smells like processed animal meat.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sun, 29 Aug 1999 01:05:37 -0800

I wanted to let Saab know that their campaign would probably backfire with technology workers; we'd hate spam and not buy their cars. So I sent a message to the reply address (which looked real) and a couple contact addresses I found buried in the Saabusa.com site. They all bounced.