Pnews Spamming my forum?

[Jeremy]

Well, I really wouldn't expect too much drama but here is what I can say. The alleged spammer indeed has spammed some poker sites with PokerNews links.

I spoke with Damon our CEO about it tonight and we are both in agreement that it is no one at PokerNews. Although they did register at one of the forums with a pokernews email, it still doesn't make any sense.

If you think about it, the amount of traffic Pnews would get from spamming poker forums would literally be fractional compared to the SE traffic we get from our main pnews site as well as all the other languages and countries we are in. Not to mention PokerWorks, and the large network of other sites we run.

Besides that, I am pretty sure if one of the pokernews employees was blatently spamming forums, one of 3 things would happen;

1. Damon would fire them on the spot
2. Tony G. would call them and send them into an emotional break down causing them to quit anyways.
3. The Lithuanian team would stick the mob on them.

None of which sound very pleasent. But in all seriousness, it is probably either a competitor or someone with an agenda. I know first hand of a few other large PAW members that have had this same problem and acually had a Party affiliate acct. suspended because of this type of B.S. in the last 6 months. Luckily we helped him get it turned back on though

Regardless if anyone ever gets a spam in their forums or email from Pnews please email me with the all the registration and I.P. info.

[AceHigh Pino]

Jeremy > Life? Perhaps....

[Jeremy]

Jeremy > Life? Perhaps....

huh?

[Brandon]

Originally Posted by AceHigh Pino

Jeremy > Life? Perhaps....

I dont get it?

[stroke]

i dont want to start problems but this really doesnt make sense.

Here is the ip and email
82.135.208.170


That email domain forwards to pokernews.com so they should be able to figure out who is doing it..

[Ozpoker]

http://www.ripe.net/perl/whois?form_type=simple&full_query_string=&searchtext=82.135.208.170&do_search=Search

Lithuania
Kauno Apskritis
Kaunas

[Georgia Poker]

Originally Posted by AceHigh Pino

Jeremy > Life? Perhaps....

Jeremy is bigger than life? We already knew that

[CasinoMack]

Well it happened on my dormant forum as well. I think I deleted the post already though.

[AceHigh Pino]

Originally Posted by Georgia Poker

Jeremy is bigger than life? We already knew that

Im sure most people learned those signs in junior high math...lol.

< (less than)
> (greater than)

But thanks for clarifying GP -- complimenting Jeremy around these parts can be a tough thing to do sometimes. Heh.

[GazMan]

Hi All,

For those that don't know who I am, my name is Gareth and I am the Marketing Director for PokerNews.

As Jeremy has mentioned, spamming is against our internal policies. However, upon my personal investigation of this matter I have found that these posts were in fact made by a PokerNews employee from one of our Lithuanian offices.

I’d like to offer my personal apology to Stroke (and any others that may have had their forums spammed). This sort of practice is not condoned by me in any way, and was done without my knowledge, and certainly without my authorisation. Still, I take responsibility for it and will ensure that we are not involved with this sort of practice again. The employee in question has been severely reprimanded.

I believe this incident to be an isolated one and once again offer my apologies.

If any PAW member ever has any similiar concerns or issues, I welcome you to contact me directly.

Gareth Edwards
Marketing Director
PokerNews Limited