Glasgow Sea School

[Nick]

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It would appear that several of us have received PM spam from our latest sign-up, one glasgowseaschool

My apologies for this. I have sent the following by PM and email to Mr. Seaschool:

How dare you spam the whole forum using the PM system?

It is not unknown for people to join purely for the purpose of advertising their business . . . but this is the first time in seven years anyone has actually PM-ed the whole forum.

For your audacity you have been awarded a lifetime ban from BlueMoment, with no chance of your school ever being listed on the directory section of this site. Well done!

I am not sure, but I hope that by deleting him promptly his PMs will disappear from the inboxes of those who have not yet opened them . . . please let me know. As I have deleted him you will be unable to voice your displeasure by PM, but his email is info@glasgowseaschool.org

[Silkie]

I wonder why people do that? He could presumably have had a directory listing or even a press release just for the asking. Being spammed makes me less likely to use someone's services, not more, and I imagine the same goes for most people using a forum like this one.

How many others got pms?

[Rowana]

I got one.

I just deleted it withour reply. I have much better things to do with my life than getting my twickers in a nist over spam like this.

Do you feel like a post on buttlescut advising of this punters tactics?

I will be watching

[cpedw]

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I am not sure, but I hope that by deleting him promptly his PMs will disappear from the inboxes of those who have not yet opened them . . . please let me know.

The message has gone, but there was a notification of a new message in the top banner.
Derek

[philiph]

now I'm feeling left out - I didn't get any PM.

[Pete Cooper]

I didn't get a PM either, but I would just assume that's coz I know all about sailing so a sailing school would have nothing to offer me!!

[MacHurley22]

I also got notification of one which had been deleted when I clicked on the notification box.

I suspect he'd been going through the member list in date joined order (the default view) in which case Claymore and Shard should also have notifications when next they sign in.

[marisca]

Ah! that explains why I got a notification, went to my box and found a message from Ocklepoint dated September.

Thank you for saving me from Mr Glasgowseaschool.

[DaveS]

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I am not sure, but I hope that by deleting him promptly his PMs will disappear from the inboxes of those who have not yet opened them . . . please let me know.

The message has gone, but there was a notification of a new message in the top banner.
Derek

Same here. Notification of two new messages; I opened one real one, then there were no new messages.

[claymore]

What an absolutely intolerant bunch you are, you stuffy sods.
Times are hard - never harder than for a Sea School located in Glasgow at this time of the year. Have you tried sailing a crew of first timers down Argyll or Buchanan Streets in December?
The guy was just looking to a bit of business - shame on you all and I think all of you who protested should chip in and charter him for the Chents Cruise 09.
Thank God, I didn't object - imagine being cooped up on a boat all weekend with youse, ye rechabitian parashites.
xx

[Nick]

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The guy was just looking to a bit of business

There's a back story to this, more later.

In the meantime, all those of you who want to sign up for Claysie's course on Netiquette for the Nautical should PM him

[Rowana]

There's a back story to this, more later.

You've got me intrigued now.


Do tell! I like a good story

[Clyde_Wanderer]

Nick, did you get my message regarding this subject?

[Nick]

Nick, did you get my message regarding this subject?

Nope - was it a PM or an email?

[Telo]

I didn't have a PM from them

Mind you, forbye all the "ethical" issues about forum rules and suchlike, I thought their web site was quite good.