In our last article we talked about how to fight sites that steal your content. That article was directed at fighting spam by contacting the hosting company that powers the website behind the spam.  Now in that article we were talking about splogs in particular that steal content and not talking about SPAM that comes in the email variety (unwanted emails sent to your inbox promoting peculiar behaviors or hoodia diet supplements or something even more bizarre.)

The Marketing Blog however offers up a bad hosting review account of an experience with DreamHost, a hosting company that we cover somewhat regularly. 

Most of the reviews and recommendations we have received about DreamHost have been positive, but we simply present here the bad in addition to the good.  You be the judge as you make your own hosting decisions.

Now this particular website owner apparently had a website hosted on Dreamhost.  Someone brought a complaint to Dreamhost about their website claiming that it had sent a spammy email.  However the website owner did not use the dreamhost website domain for sending email, instead they used a different provider that enabled them to comply with the canned spam act. 

It sounds like they knew what they were doing in sending emails and also seems unlikely that they would send spam based on their knowledge.

So long story short, the original party that complained never was able to provide evidence in the form of the offending email.  However Dreamhost canceled the website anyway, without any evidence.

So The Marketing Blog owner is now working to use their blogging voice to spread the word about their experience, a practice that is very common amongst bloggers that feel they have been wronged.

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