Hi. I still use LJ, follow my friends and similar, but I've moved my main host to Dreamwidth now, and am crossposting everything to here, but asking people to comment there.

Mat Bowles.

It's still fully interoperative, the OpenID comment functions there are good and improving, and I can follow everything from both sites easily.

Remember this post last week about that Nikkogen thing? Well, I got an email Monday:

Good morning Mr Bowles,

Please can you remove any reference to Nikkogen from your website/blog. The information on your website received automated or not is incorrect and any reference to our company as being a fraud is incorrect.

You have a week to remove any reference to our company.
( ... )

D'you like that? Apparently the initial spam comment was automated. Or at least I think that's what it's trying to say. It appears that they may be admitting to spamming, but are doing so via an automated spam. No apology for spamming either. I mailed Tim about it, he said he'd had no follow up, I filed it under 'ignore' as there's nothing they can do legally. Thing is, it appears I'm not the only one they've emailed. Unity got very similar:

( Identical grammatically awful stuff )
You may wish to contact Tim Worstall - who will I’m sure confirm that the information he provided via his website/blog was incorrect.( ... )

Which again ends on that veiled threat. Mr Jenkins? We each have a week to remove the reference or? ( More musings on Nikkogen and spamming )
I'm going to reply to Mr Jenkin's email now before I turn in. It'll be a simple link to this post.

Mr Jenkins? Some free advice, something I'd usually charge for.

1. Don't spam.
   
2. Don't pay others to spam.
   
3. If you realise that's a mistake and wish to correct it, apologise.
4. Get your facts straight.
   
5. Don't make veiled threats with no substance.
   
6. Understand the basic principles of free comment on the internet or in press. It's called freedom of the press, a concept you may have heard of.
   
7. If you want someone to do something, be explicit, request politely and explain why they should do as you request.
   
8. Don't try and promote a product that gives every appearance of being based off very dodgy science to a bunch of tech aware online types without at the very least explaining the basics, because we can research and do know what we're doing.  And if we don't?  We know someone that does.
   

That last bit? The bit about knowing what you're doing? I wouldn't invest in a company promoting itself like this even if they had a veritable licence to print money. You don't.

I have no idea if their product is legit. From what I've seen, I doubt it. But I really don't like them at the moment. That is, of course, a personal opinion, and I leave it to my friends and readers to make up their own mind.
( Footnotes )

Busy at work, catching up after the week off, still not up to speed with friends page, etc. In the meantime, Tim Worstall:

Despite that I'll go out on a limb here and state that in my opinion Nikkogen is a scam. A fraud. Don't get involved with it, don't try to work for them, don't try to sign a marketing agreement and most certainly don't try to provide them with any services or investment capita ... Anyone who would like to spread this information by linking to this post with the anchor text 'Nikkogen' would be most welcome.

So, here we go, Nikkogen. The moral of this story?

Don't spam my blog comments Sonny

We don't like spammers we don't. So, I'll add it to my links list later, but if'n people would like to do the usual? The last one is still effective...