BULLPUCKY!!! You KNEW that most users were set to receive a text OR an e-mail when an author they followed published. You knew further, that all you needed to do was add the four "authors" in question to everyone's account as "followed authors" (even though we did NOT request this) and viola! We get your spam e-mails on a daily basis . And NOW to make matters worse, instead of owning up to your shenanigans, you insult our intelligence with your semantic B.S.

For you to sit there and claim ... "To clarify a common misunderstanding: we did not sign anyone up for

emails..." is the moral equivalent of you saying ... "I didn't shoot him! I just shot that piece of paper he was holding in front of his chest!" Don't be a Trump, start up a relationship with the truth! You displayed poor judgment and did something sleazy. Own it, apologize for it, and never do it, or anything like it again. You make money off our patronage. We deserve better!

What follows is the letter I wrote to Seeking Alpha before I came to this site today. But because they guard their e-mail address like the keys to Fort Knox, I was unable to send it. So I am here.

I am attaching  images. A copy of the text of my e-mail (since you don't seem to want us to paste into a comment), a copy of the top of the spam e-mail, and a copy of the bottom of the spam e-mail claiming that I requested this spam.

Seeking Alpha KNEW if they added "followed authors" to our accounts for us, that it would generate e-mails and texts. Pleas don't insult our intelligence by claiming otherwise

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