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misleading e-mail from Tech Republic

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by diabetic

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i received a promotional e-mail from Tech Republic that was a cause of some concern to me.

First, the subject line read:

Someone in your office is making YOU look BAD.

The subject line had nothing to do with the content of the e-mail, the message was about a promotion that Tech Republic is doing with Xerox.

The second, and more disturbing concern was that the link they provided was at an ad.doubleclick.net server. Doublclick is a notorious collector of personal information and, likea lot of people, I do everything in my power to stay out of their database (I refuse their cookies, etc). Now, if the link were to a techRepublic site or a Xerox site, I might not be as concerned, but DoubleClick??????

I expected better of TechRepublic. I trusted them, but less so now.

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by chris hirst

You may want to stop looking at TR then because if you look, every banner\sidebar advert are from ad.doubleclick.net servers

by diabetic

I'm aware of that. I have that site blocked, so I don't see the adverts.

But when I click onto an e-mail from TR, I certainly don't expect to go through DoubleClick.

by keith_swarm

I to am surprised by this misleading message. I expect advertising. I don't expect misleading or covert marketing from techrepublic.

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