timjpriebe — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:18:31 +0000

That's too funny! Well, I don't know anything about how they deal with their servers or their hosting, but from this situation, they do seem to be a very ethical company.

02bunced — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:47:17 +0000

From their front page now

Quote:
Random Featured Site

The site displayed below is not affiliated with OutBurst Hosting in any manner. The site was referred by one of our customers or staff as a site worth visiting.

Webmaster-forums.net

ipodman — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:07:04 +0000

lol, people these days! what they will do

timjpriebe — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:15:12 +0000

And I just got this response. I must say, Outburst has been extremely professional about all this.

Quote: Tim,

That is a very good suggestion. We will implement this within 48 hours.

Thank you
Support OutBurst Hosting

timjpriebe — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:07:41 +0000

And here was my response:

Quote: While I appreciate the thought, I would have appreciated it even more if
this information had been apparent on your site. The lack of any details
made it seem as if you were claiming to be somehow involved in the site.

So while I did not mind the incoming traffic, it was too easy for visitors
to your page to infer an affiliation that didn't exist.

Thank you for your prompt action.

timjpriebe — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:06:49 +0000

Here's the email I received from them:

Quote: Dear Tim Priebe,

OutBurst Hosting allows its customers to suggest sites for the featured site of the week. The sites do not have to be owned by our customers, just some site they think is cool. Your site had to be suggested. We place all the suggestions we receive into a database and they are rotated at random. We receive mostly thanks from webmasters because it drives traffic to their website. We are not implying any association with the featured sites. We apologize for the inconvenience. We will remove your site from our rotation.

With regards,

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Greg K — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:21:36 +0000

If they were directly calling the image from your server, well you could oh had fun and changed the image... LOL

-Greg

timjpriebe — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:48:32 +0000

Looks like they've removed the link. Within 30 minutes or so of calling/emailing them, too, so that's good.

What could I have done if they hadn't?