Youvegotpost.com is reading personal mail!

[LOC Veteran]

Boy am I glad I started this :(

[Shmeegie88]

OK, here's the rule. I give you the emails to get in touch with these folks, so long as you promise to post what they reply with. Should be fun.

1) [email protected] (this is the standard one)

2) [email protected] (this is the address for the fake PR site they run to promote their pathetic services)

3) [email protected] (this is the address for the holding company that purportedly owns YGP. They also run small time porn sites like *snipped* from this as well.)

Now remember, this whole thing is run by one guy - Greg Lloyd Smith. Jennifer, Amy, Santa Claus, and whoever else appear in the "To' line are absolute cr*p.

[moeburn]

damn. When it comes to people screwing you over, neowin.net forums are always there to..... see how they can kill their free time :)

good luck!

[Chode]

Can Neowin pwn these a-holes?

Tune in next week to find out

[Neilzsche]

OK, here's the rule. I give you the emails to get in touch with these folks, so long as you promise to post what they reply with. Should be fun.

1) [email protected] (this is the standard one)

2) [email protected] (this is the address for the fake PR site they run to promote their pathetic services)

3) [email protected] (this is the address for the holding company that purportedly owns YGP. They also run small time porn sites like www.shavedmodels.com from this as well.)

Now remember, this whole thing is run by one guy - Greg Lloyd Smith. Jennifer, Amy, Santa Claus, and whoever else appear in the "To' line are absolute cr*p.

nice.... spammed right now

[matt74441]

Guys don't spam them, we're better than that.

[Neilzsche]

maybe so, but something will be done

[matt74441]

maybe so, but something will be done

Don't worry, they aren't going to survive for much longer. They'll run out of money and that'll be the end of them.

[supernova_00]

no! no spamming! Last time (sorry dude) LOC started a thread about yougotpost, that Amy biatch turned everything around that we said and made it out to be that Neowin attacked the site and tried to bring them down.

[Shmeegie88]

I completely agree with Matt - do not spam them. However, I believe that well written, courteous emails should be sent to GLS to have him explain his actions. I DO NOT condone hassling him unnecessarily.

[Chode]

Someone's gotta Slashdot this..... :shifty:

[MxxCon]

do you REALLY think that they bcc every single email their service gets? do you REALLY think they are reading all your emails?

do you REALLY think they care about your meeting next tuesday on the corner in front of starbucks?

:rolleyes:

i'm not doubting that they CAN do it, but i'm highly doubting they actually do it.

but then again, if your own damm fault for signing up w/ any company you know nothing about

[Chode]

[email protected] is no longer a valid address....

[Neilzsche]

[email protected] is no longer a valid address....

interesting...

[moeburn]

do you REALLY think that they bcc every single email their service gets? do you REALLY think they are reading all your emails?

do you REALLY think they care about your meeting next tuesday on the corner in front of starbucks?

:rolleyes:

i'm not doubting that they CAN do it, but i'm highly doubting they actually do it.

but then again, if your own damm fault for signing up w/ any company you know nothing about

if they own the server, they shouldn't need to BCC :rolleyes:

I don't think they care, i think its some kid who went "it would be cool to read everyone's email"

[Chode]

at least according to an old email account I had at gawab.com, it is

[Shmeegie88]

Sadly, Greg Lloyd Smith is not a kid. Wish he was. Google him.

My guess is that we will see him reply. The more courteous the emails that are written, the more rude he will be in response.

[MxxCon]

if they own the server, they shouldn't need to BCC :rolleyes:

you don't know that they do.

not only so far we haven't seen any facts(having rude admin doesn't mean anything)

but it's technologicaly impossible to know if some email was BCCed anywhere, that's the whole idea behind it.

[Bearded Kirklander]

If you don't feel comfortable about the site, why not just report it to whatever agencies you can and simply not visit? There is no need to spam it and try to bring it down. Maybe start up a web site warning people about it and send that web site link to various online news organizations? They may be doing terrible things, but actually assaulting their site with spam and DNS type things is just not cool, at least that is how I feel about it. People make a choice to visit the site. Nobody is forced to sign up. It's not like they are putting spyware on your machine and hijacking your browser or something, right?

[Shmeegie88]

please could someone post more stupid comments from these people

Here's a good one from YGP

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Hello,

Well that was a good test, which proved my original opinion; something I expressed to The Big

Cheese, when I told him that a User Forum was a complete waste of my time and his/their money.

Unfortunately, there are a small number of Internet a**holes out there, who do not deserve to be

left alone in front of a computer, and they make this interface a pain in the ass for the rest of

us.

I will now go through the thousands of user accounts that we have generated in the last 3-4 days and

delete all of those who I believe should not possess a YGP account.

If you have a question about YGP, email me at [email protected].

Regards,

Amy Jackson

You've Got Post!

www.youvegotpost.com

[Chode]

Check this out. I went from their homepage to their newspage, and they're naming Neowin and specific users as part of the blame for a "mass-mailing attack, originating from malicious forum banter" back in the middle of the month.

06/14/04 -- You've Got Post Limited owner/operator of the popular FreeMail, You've Got Post! who recently launched You've Got Dialup! has endured a harrowing 48 hours at the experienced hands of a number of Internet thugs, lead by a small band of GMail users.

The saga began when a Neowin.net user, who goes by the handles "LOC" and "Lord LOC", requested permission to post a message on the forum about YGP's extraordinary offer. YGP offers unlimited Email storage—a free service, which is not supported by ads but instead relies upon the occasional donation of its users. The message first appeared on the forum's "Back Page News" under the title of "[screw Gmail, etc etc]Youvegotpost 1 TB Webmail, You heard me right".

Amy Jackson, YGP spokesperson, confirmed: "I authorized the posting, although I didn't know the exact contents before they were published and later, LOC was a little slow in telling me where he had promoted our service. Ironically, he said YGP was offering 1TB of Email storage, when in fact, we offer an unlimited service."

Jackson explained this was because the initial storage level set by their system was 1TB, incremental by 1TB, as space was required by user, as if that wasn't enough!

Over the weekend, the FreeMail registrations came rolling in, but then it was discovered that the majority of these new YGP users where coming from another web forum, << filtered for offensive content >> run by Richard Kyanka—where a competing message had been posted.

Participants included a number of Gmail users, who were registering, posting their Email addresses to the forum and then encouraging other visitors to send bulk Emails to these new Email accounts in hopes of damaging the YGP website. Other forum users were also registering YGP Email accounts—in one example, more than 100 addresses were registered by a single user who suggested others should use the Hotmail he created, and others had use of, in order to satisfy the requirements for registration.

Calls, emails and faxes to Google headquarters in Mountain View California, and SomethingAwful, Inc., in Seattle Washington, requesting comment, were not immediately returned.

One forum user [Mine GO BOOM] who had registered "[email protected]" wrote: "Spam me big files, as my email address suggests."

Another, [DAVENULL] wrote: "Haha, this rocks. Send me absurdly large data files at [email protected]."

[Paxosmotic] wrote: Why not just keep on going until Amy has a heart attack and dies at the keyboard?"

[Yossarko], a GMail user and forum member registered "[email protected]" and when that account was deleted, he registered "[email protected]" and wrote: "Had to re-register (deleted for GMAIL breaking of TOS), please send me cool ****."

There are hundreds of posted messages, each one boasting of the addresses that were registered by a very small number of forum users, each one encouraging the others to send bulk Email, to "spam the hell out of me...", meaning the Email addresses they had created. One user even suggested that "Amy could make all this go away if she stopped trying to compete with GMail", but the most menacing one of all, [Hammer] wrote: "Holy ****, these guys are ######, let's **** up their ****."

About You've Got Post! ™

You've Got Post! ™ was created in February 1998 and went "live" on December 30, 1999, aiming to provide the very best free Email service (FreeMail)—fast, free and efficient. You've Got Post Limited, a UK company, purchased the business from its founder on February 26, 2004. For more information or to get your own You've Got Post! FreeMail account, visit You've Got Post! ™

http://www.officialspin.com/main.php?action=recent&rid=1611

Naming Neowin members as though we're responsible...that's not right!

[- Paul -]

please could someone post more stupid comments from these people

Here's a good one from YGP

------------------------------------------

Hello,

Well that was a good test, which proved my original opinion; something I expressed to The Big

Cheese, when I told him that a User Forum was a complete waste of my time and his/their money.

Unfortunately, there are a small number of Internet a**holes out there, who do not deserve to be

left alone in front of a computer, and they make this interface a pain in the ass for the rest of

us.

I will now go through the thousands of user accounts that we have generated in the last 3-4 days and

delete all of those who I believe should not possess a YGP account.

If you have a question about YGP, email me at [email protected].

Regards,

Amy Jackson

You've Got Post!

www.youvegotpost.com

Charming.

[Chode]

If "Amy" or Smith or whatever personality it is does read through this thread eventually, I'd like to leave them a personal message: (if you can't see the attachment, it is the central digit on a left hand, extended in the age old sign of "Get Stuffed")

Edited June 30, 2004 by Chode

[- Paul -]

If "Amy" or Smith or whatever personality it is does read through this thread eventually, I'd like to leave them a personal message:

Hehe, nice one :laugh:

[LOC Veteran]

Sigh, it's never going to end is it.

Well then, I think Slashdot should /. this one.