Hi Doug,
I just had a similar experience. I emailed him to request a copy of his
book for review, and bingo, I get an invoice in the email to cough up
cash from Billpoint as well.
This is ridiculous, and is giving us a bad rep.
I'll pursue this further.
BTW, has anyone else suffered this probably-illegal experience with Al
Dev?
Regards and best wishes,
Justin Clift
Doug Royer wrote:
>
> Jan Wieck wrote:
> >
> > Dear PostgreSQL community,
> >
> > Most of the longer standing members of the PostgreSQL
> > developers or users communities know very well what to do
> > with information provided by Al Dev (aka Alavoor Vasudevan).
> > ....
>
> Is all I did was visit his web site, and got a bill from
> "billpoint@billpoint.com" for $25.98. I DID NOT order his book:
>
> > Subject: Billpoint Invoice for Item # , 1 , for $25.98
> > Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 17:02:14 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Billpoint System Notification <billpoint@billpoint.com>
> > To: Doug@royer.com
> >
> > ...
> >
> > This is a Billpoint Invoice from alavoor@yahoo.com requesting
> > payment of $25.98 for "1" . To pay for this item, click on the
> > link below, or copy and paste it into your browser. (If the
> > link appears on multiple lines, you may need to copy each line
> > separately.)
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Invoice Details
> > ---------------
> > ...
> > Seller: alavoor@yahoo.com
> > Seller email: alavoor@yahoo.com
> > Seller Message: A Complete Guide to PostgreSQL.
> > ...
>
> When I called the WHOIS database phone number for billpoint,
> the answering maching answered BILL - POINT, then I hit '0'
> and E-BAY answered.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Name: Doug.vcf
> Doug.vcf Type: VCard (text/x-vcard)
> Encoding: 7bit
> Description: Card for Doug Royer
>
> Part 1.3 Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
> Encoding: binary
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