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Name: PriceRightHosting
Date: April 22, 2004 at 21:00:23 Pacific
Subject: Offer eMail
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I would like to know if there are any scripts that will allow me to offer people email at **mydomain.com**

It needs to have a signup form and such-automatic

Currently having to do it by an online form and then set up everything manually then email a file sending details{thank goodness only a few friends use now}
But I am thinking of taking it to the next level.

Any Suggestions...



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Response Number 1
Name: safeTsurfa
Date: April 23, 2004 at 10:28:55 Pacific
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No idea how it's done, but I have to ask: if you can't figure this out for yourself, how can you claim to offer a reliable service as you do in your URL link? I would be very untrusting of anyone offering a "reliable service" but who has to come to a help forum to fix their problems.

So in answer to your request on how to take it to the next level, my own answer is: learn to do it properly without needing forums like this one. You know how to Google, you know how to read the Apache, etc guides, the rest is down to your own efforts.


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Response Number 2
Name: safeTsurfa
Date: April 26, 2004 at 10:42:55 Pacific
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Ah yes, here we are... the truth behind "Pricerighthosting".

Owned by another domain (to hide the real owner)... smilinfaces.com. Check out smilinfaces.com and we see it is a spam site. Yep that's right, a spammer collecting mail addresses.

First thing he tries is to get you to sign up for some "newsletter" which he hasn't even described, using an annoying javascript alert dialog as the index page opens. Not once, but twice if you dare say "No" the first time.

We find a single crappy page with cheap graphics oversized above their correct dimensions, and taken from free graphics site. This page has only four links to off site pages.

There is a pay-per-click link through to some sleazy site called "guaranteedtraffic.com", yeah right, like anybody can really "guarantee" traffic for your web site. All it really wants is for you to sign up for the "free trial", handing over your phone number and email address. Only traffic that site guarantees you is spam.

Then we see that right price hosting scam. 'Nuff said about that, it's just a reseller account, so no real value there as these are a dime a dozen.

Finally we see two links for "myvitaminsource.com", one of those sleazy "we invented the pefect health product nobody else knows about" sites. Hmm, wonder how the FDA would react to their claims? If this was so miraculous, how come the medical profession hasn't dumped all other health care advisories for this one product?

Oh, and let's not forget the off site links that site offers are all diverted via.... you got it.... "guaranteedtraffic.com" as pay per click links. Even the link to the more infor site at myvitaminsource.net is owned by the guy "marcus suggs", the same guy who owns "guaranteedtraffic.com" "pricerighthosting.com" and "smilingfaces.com".

Do we see some pattern building up here? I guess we do. The same spammer running several sites to catch the unwary.

So, do we still want to use "pricerighthosting", and do we still want to get involved in allowing a spammer to create an email system which gets him deep into the heart of the victims' mailboxes?

Do we trust a spammer to protect the privacy of his clients' mail addresses and not sell the hosting lists to all payers? Nope, i don;t think we do.


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