The Source Newsletter by FanBridge: Sp@m, Baby, Sp@m

The Source has just sp@mmed me at every email address I've ever made public on a hip hop related website using a FanBridge account including email addresses that haven't been used for such a purpose in years, literally, years.

This is worse than the MP3 pushers and mixtape merchants' sp@m.  At least they're generally up-to-date and their methods fit the sometimes quasi-legal nature of their enterprise!

And, even if I don't like it, I understand why up-and-coming artists and their publicists and even bloggers fall into sp@m practices.  It's tough getting visibility in this world and it's easy to be tempted.

But, at this point in time, The Source has no reasonable excuses.  Doubly bad for The Source is that I was going to cover what they were pushing until I'd worked through various email accounts and realized just what losers these people continue to be.  It's like it's in the DNA of the magazine.  Even with a totally different crew, shadiness just seeps out of that company.

I wrote before about the ReverbNation powered sp@m mailings and the folks there convinced me they're doing everything they can to fight it.  FanBridge is probably doing the same so I'm not upset with the newsletter providers.  Those are important services.

To be honest, I've never contacted one of these services about a specific sp@mmer, cause not everybody even realizes what they're doing is sp@m, but I'm going to contact FanBridge about The Source.

But don't call it snitching!  Let's call it, whittling away at the competition!

[lol]

Actually, I don't care what you call it.  There's no reason for them to be doing this so any form of name calling will just reveal you to be as big a punk as they're being.

In fact, I would have let them keep sending stuff to hiphoppress(at)netweed(dot)com, where hip hop sp@m has a happy home, but I accidentally unsubscribed myself from that address as well and I think that will remain a policy for The Source's publicity efforts from here on out.

Since I can't say anything good, and that's their own damn fault, I won't say anything at all.  Unless I get annoyed like I am at the moment!

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