I have only just discovered this and have sent a suitably cross email to rather silly jilly

Juniper jo - You say "She is in floods of tears"

How do you know? I shall presume that you are her or know her.

Either way it was a foolish mistake to make

I can identify a few mumsnetters from the list (luckily not people from rl, just MN but still!) its an invasion of privacy and unacceptable.

JuniperJo I think its time you finished your homework and started getting ready for bed.

Cross post with Fillyjonk .

Welcome to Mumsnet JuniperJo - I notice that this is your first post.

oh yawn. juniperjo's only post.

Look, esp if you are Jilly, you ballsed up big time here. And as a result, a lot of us are pissed off. especially me, whose name shouldn't be on that list as I did opt out (was on list due to seperate communication re winning)

So take the tongue lashing like a woman and fgs don't do this again.

I got this email too, only knew it was something to do with MN by some of the email address with MN names in them.

JuniperJo are you Jilly?

Reading all these threads are making me feel sick. Do you really have so little to do that you can persecute a poor junior girl for making what is essentially an IT mistake that anyone could have made. People presuming she is 'half brained' or 'dozy' I find very cruel and unfair. She did not do anything worth the ripping apart you are all giving and I am quite sure you have all made mistakes in your perfect lives somewhere along the way! She is in ‘floods of tears’ Imagine if your daughters grew to be in their first jobs and people were jumping on them in anger like this. I got a lovely email for this girl apologising and I feel she is quite traumatised by all this - down to you nasty women trying to get thrills from your otherwise dull lives by attacking someone for very little. I mean really do you think your email addies are interesting to anyone – the only people who have seen them are yourselves? You are deluded to think so. Give her a BREAK!!!!! You know nothing about her and are making such narrow minded assumptions. I once made a similar error and remember being so upset by how unforgiving people could be that it dented my confidence for years after. How do you feel knowing this is what you could be doing to this girl? I hope she has good mates/a supportive mum after the abuse she has had heaped on her by you bullies

Mine too, but I am not too bothered. I mean who is going to go through all of the addresses and what would they use it for?

I got the same email and thought it was Spam - and I did see the list of email recipients, and thought that is not right!!! It is ok sending an apology, but the damage has been done and is irreversable. Wont be partaking in that again!

I don't even remember doing the original survey, but was on there too.

Fillyjonk that's exactly the same opt-out button I look for

This should definitely go in Campaign magazine as 'balls up of the week' though

in case she doesn;t see this thread too, Justine posted on anotehr thread...

By JustineMumsnet on Wed 07-Jan-09 21:30:26 (from MNHQ)
Hi all,
This is as you all rightly point out, is a complete balls up and deeply irritating for both you and us. We'll certainly be talking to this agency first thing tomorrow to make it clear how unacceptable this is.

Many many apologies to all from our end.

you know what? I did NOT give them permission to contact me again. I NEVER EVER DO. I would have looked for the little box saying "No you fecking may NOT contact me ever again, I just want the vouchers.".

was this originally for a MN comp? and we put our email addresses in to enter the comp? or am i remembering wrong?
There is no chance that i would have given the email address that i did if there was chance of spam (which is what this is - unsolicited mail)

oo er! I got this too.

It is in specific contradiction of the law: here

The bits silly-Jilly should have read:
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If you're planning a marketing campaign, you'll have to comply with a number of regulations.

Electronic mail marketing
The most important thing to remember is that you can only carry out unsolicited electronic marketing if the person you're targeting has given you their permission.

However, there is an exception to this rule. Known as the 'soft opt-in' it applies if the following conditions are met;

where you've obtained a person's details in the course of a sale or negotiations for a sale of a product or service;
where the messages are only marketing similiar products or services; and
where the person is given a simple opportunity to refuse marketing when their details are collected, and if they don't opt out at this point, are given a simple way to do so in future messages
When you send an electronic marketing message, you must tell the recipient who you are and provide a valid contact address.

<snip>
In summary, we recommend that your marketing campaigns are always permission-based and you explain clearly what a person's details will be used for. Provide a simple way for them to opt out of marketing messages and have a system in place for dealing with complaints.

I am phoning the company in the morning to complain.

Has anyone bothered to tell MNHQ about this yet? Am off to do so.

I had this email too and wondered where it had come from. I don't remember the survey. Was it a MN thing then?

got this email too, edlted it automatically as assumed it was spam, have since gone back and retrieved it to read properly and now conclude that I was right the first time, not v impressed

agree whomoved

It IS spam as far as I am concerned. I didn't say I'd take part in PR, I can't abide tv anyway.

Actually there is a different question here which is: does the fact that we participated in the survey/competition give Jilly at Nelson Bostock and external PR company who clearly have little or no regard for privacy the right to contact us? I think not.

Am royally pissed off, I get about 200 spam messages a day.

To quote Nelson Bostock's website:

'But before we start telling you about the agency, what we do and who we do it for (and there's plenty to tell), we'd like to talk about what makes us that little bit different.

Quite simply, it's our people. We believe passionately that the most successful way of winning minds for our clients is to pack the agency with Winning Minds of our own.'

Winning minds?

yes am annoyed, it has my real name

and I DIDN'T take part, I just won vouchers

and I have bugger all desire to promote freeview or any other tv related stuff.

AA - I am with you in your anger - I posted on the other thread. Not something I would expect from MN. And I do hold them to account for this

bcc

it is a crime i think. data protection act.

silly and common mistake but could be really serious

i don't remember putting my email address on the viewtrition thing anyway, i recall thinking it was a shit idea...have mailed to be removed from their list and that no i have not had further contact from Jo Drake (or whoever it was)

I had it too. Deleted it because it didn't look like an official email, thought it was spam lol!
Didn't see the email addresses until i looked again after 2nd email. Had to click too see them on gmail. Luckily email not in my real name but is my MN name!

I'd have thought someone working for a PR company would know how to do that!

I had this too.
I didn't have a clue what it was about at first. they could have written a more professional email , saying what she was talking about, instead of assuming we'd have a clue who her colleague was. And then to have open addresses.
Sheesh... Pr agencies these days

Very annoying and easily preventable when you know how.

A friend used to block the other names on the email list by using an Outlook funktion. Does anyone know how to do that?

I had one as well - it said something about me having agreed to take part in further promotional activity which I don't actually have any memory of doing. I took part in the Freeview thing here, but as far as I knew, that was the limit of it.

me too, the dozy cow

Its still not the point.

Easily done or not, they have a responsibility to take data protection seriously. It should be absolutely basic when sending out an email like this to avoid listing all the recipients' addresses.

like i said our local police officer did this with all the neighbourhood watch people in our district! thats why i said its easily done! If police do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know its not linked to my MN name but thats not the point. I trusted them with my 'official' email as it was a competition entry as well. I don't want it spammed to buggery, or my real name given to everyone else who did the survey.

Really really unprofessional IMO.

Easily done, Bonkerz? Not by someone with half a brain.

See this other thread too.

Yes I was waiting for the apology when I saw this..

Mine is up there too AA and I was a bit shocked - a lot of people have their real names up. It is not ok at all.

I wondered about that as I got it too and could see everyone's emails (and they mine). That said my real name etc/mumsenet name and email address have nothing in common.

mine too but i think it would be hard for people to find out your mumsnet name from the email. she has sent an apology. its easily done, our local police officer did this recently in one of the neighbour hood watch emails!

They have emailed me (which is fine in itself as I said they could) but they have listed all the email addresses they have replied to at the top of the email.

Mine is my real name and I didn't really want it sent to a few hundred other people