Comments on: Dear $FIRSTNAME... http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/02/01/dear-firstname/ the blog that is not dansdata.com Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:43:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Darius http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/02/01/dear-firstname/#comment-714 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 23:03:11 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/02/01/dear-firstname/#comment-714 A company I own shares in (ING I think) use someone similar for sending their crud. My wife sent them a stern email and their reply indicated they totally missed the point. Same with Xilinx (FPGA mfg) - they send all their announcement crap that way, so stupidly unprofessional yet they don't learn. The worst part is that it just trains users to accept phish attempts so they will become more likely. A company I own shares in (ING I think) use someone similar for sending their crud. My wife sent them a stern email and their reply indicated they totally missed the point.

Same with Xilinx (FPGA mfg) - they send all their announcement crap that way, so stupidly unprofessional yet they don't learn.

The worst part is that it just trains users to accept phish attempts so they will become more likely.

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