Fuel the Fire
May 4th, 2006
In what appears to be an ongoing saga, a new chapter has unfolded in my battle with CEO spammer, Matt Heaton. If you are jumping into the story here, you should first read the preceding posts:
Assuming you skipped over those links, the Reader’s Digest version is that Matt spammed his clients, requesting they come read his personal blog. I tried commenting, he deleted the comment, I posted about it. Repeat.
Last week, Bluehost sends out some announcement regarding some upgrade to service. At the bottom of the email, once again there is a link to his personal blog. Whatever… Trying to avoid the impression of being a complete ball-buster, I had decided to let it slide. Shortly thereafter, in what I can only interpret as an attempt to intentionally piss me off, Matt sent me the following email:
I just sent another mailing. Hurry and write a blog entry about it
Thanks,
Matt Heaton
So, this clown comes in and craps on my sandwich. He then elbows me in the ribs, and laughs in my face about it. I don’t understand it, but it provides for some fodder. Not how I would choose to deal with my clients, but to each his own.
Some people have recommended that I just shut up and move my sites if I don’t like it. Unfortunately, I don’t deem that a viable option. First, it would really piss me off that I’d have to be inconvenienced to move hosts for a handful of sites because this bozo can’t play nice. Secondly, the sites I have hosted there are prepaid for a year - with approximately six months left to renew. So, I am supposed to take a bath on a few hundred dollars worth of hosting because I don’t want to tolerate being spammed, then taunted??
Regardless of the money though, it comes down to the principle. Even when I decided to let it slide, he goaded me on. So the dance continues. Perhaps a few more of the following types of results will dissuade him:
May 13th, 2006 at 6:58 pm
Seems to me this spam facker needs some daily affirmation with Stewart Smalley. There’s obviously a void that need to be filled in Mr. Heaton’s life. Throw him this link and see if it helps.
http://home.hawaii.rr.com/snlcn/franken/stuart.html
October 17th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
Matt has been around for some time. In the pre dot-bomb era he ran 50megs.com, selling out to About.com for $9,000,000 before the internet meltdown. I think he got bored, starting another free web host called zerocatch.com and now bluehost. With all his financial success he may be suffering from a superiority complex.
May 9th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
I like how you have the searches:
# spammer ceo - MSN
# Bluehost CEO - Yahoo
# Bluehost Spam - Google
# matt heaton bluehost - Google
# matt heaton bluehost - MSN
as if lots of other people are complaining about this. I went to all of those links and the only complaints or even mentions of Matt having anything to do with spam are coming from you. I personally find it pathetic how you’ve taken a personal vendetta out on this guy just because how sent out an email about his blog as a reply to MANY customers questions about his ethics on how he runs his company.
May 9th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Fernando - check out the date of this post man. Over a year old, and I haven’t posted about it since.
In that time though, the emails I receive from Bluehost no longer contain a link prompting me to go read Matt’s blog. Coincidence?
March 18th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
I need to talk to Matt before I do what I currently feel like doing.
I have information that Matt does nto want let out. If Matt reads this, please be open to polite contacts in the near future.
If I dont get a chance to talk to him about it, I want to work with you Greg to help notify the public of how things are running with BH, HM, and FD. Matt, heads up.