From: Ryan M Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Mon Feb 11 2002 - 08:56:02 PST
At 10:41 AM -0500 2/11/02, Chris Stansbury wrote:
>Hi Rick and list,
>My web problems can't compare to your, but I recently had a
>disturbing thing happen with www.steelsoldiers.com . It turns out
>that this UK game company developed and sold a game called Steel
>Soldiers this past year. Right after the thing went on sale my
>e-mail got flooded with angry letters from consumers saying that my
>game was full of bugs, etc... I don't think people even bothered
>looking at my site before they e-mailed me. I had to put a
>disclaimer at the top of my front page to tell people that I had no
>affiliation with the game of like name. I still got mailboxes full
>of e-mails. They have gradually tapered off over the past couple of
>months. The gaming company was entirely unsympathetic and said that
>there was nothing they could do about it and that I should just deal
>with it. So, it just goes to show that it can happen to anyone. At
>least no one tried to sue me over it though. Good luck Rick. Let
>me know if I may be of service.
Ahh the power of scripting. Just write a script that forwards such
e-mails to the company. Its the neighborly thing to do.
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