Originally Posted by Robbie

Webmasters getting angry at getting emails from programs to promote and calling it "spam".

To me...spam is when I get stuff in my email that has nothing to do with me from companies I never heard of.

But email that comes to me from companies in my own industry that pertains to making money?
I guess the definition of spam has gotten a lot broader than it used to be.

Originally Posted by kristin

The issue with Helen is, she likes to email the same person, a lot. It's never really customized and when you do reply back with some questions you just get pushed to promote them more.

Originally Posted by u-Bob

The important issue here is not that spam (which is annoying but can be dealt with), but the fact that those spammers have access to the info affiliates supplied when they joined other affiliate programs.

So as others pointed out, there are 2 possibilities. Either they bought the dbs from those affiliate programs or they hacked the dbs.

In this case, Nicky said Eurorevenue has nothing to do with it and Nicky has always been a straight shooter. So the question becomes: did the spammers hack a few affiliate programs? Did the spammers buy the info from people who hacked into a few affiliate programs? If the spammers or the people they bought the info from hacked into those affiliate programs, how did they get in? Is there another bug in NATS that can be exploited to gain access to affiliate profiles or did they gain access in another way? If they gained access in another way, what kind of access did they manage to get?