I don’t know about you but over the last couple of days I have had quite a pile of Lotusphere related spam from exhibitors. I suppose our email addresses have been given to each of the exhibitors recently and they are trying to get as much out the week as possible. Whatever the reason it’s not a welcome new addition to my inbox.
Note to vendors… unsolicited mail is only likely to make me belligerent and not buy your product so please stop it.
Update: According to Neil the spam is coming from having my card scanned at previous ‘spheres. That absolves IBM of passing on details but it’s still annoying though, normally we don’t see the spam until after we get home.
Update 2: Both Ben and Volker have written their own experiences of this now. Hopefully if enough people complain this will be a shortlived marketing effort.
Matt White 
Mathew,I noticed the same thig and called a couple of them on it and both said that they had got my email in past years at Lotusphere when I swiped my badge at their booths. Not sure if this is 100% true but I did realize that I used a personal email address to register for LS this year and to date it has not got any LS SPAM. Still aggrevating but I guess maybe a little less so.Neil.
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The only Lotusphere I’ve ever been to was in Berlin in 2000. Yet all of a sudden, this year, the year I’m attending LS “proper”, I start getting LS-related spam.
Hmmm…!
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I’ve never been to Lotusphere and I’m not registered this year…It’s not coming from Lotusphere registrations at all.
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