spam from Xilinx!

Steve at fivetrees wrote: : I've just received spam from "Asia Pacific Events [ snipped-for-privacy@xilinx.com]" - : blurb about an online seminar - sent to an address used only on my website, : so clearly harvested in the usual spammerly way.

: What the hell are they doing??? Since when does a reputable company resort : to spam?

You van fake the address.

Only by looking into the mail header, you can get an impression where the mail comes from.

So don't blame Xilinx until you have hard facts.

Bye

Yes, I know.

I did check the header. It was indeed from a xilinx.com mail server. And it was advertising a Xilinx online seminar.

See above.

I'm really mystified. Why would Xilinx resort to spamming?

Steve

Since when are the marketing departments of any company considered "reputable"???

Many companies don't realise. They hire a marketing agency, and say "Make us popular", and the marketing agency do underhand things (being evil marketing people at heart; trust me, I work for a marketing agency), and the company gets blamed.

ABS

I'm sure you're right. Hopefully they've learned from this, er, mistake and will now lay down some ground rules - including "thou shalt not spam".

Steve