Spamvertising for Prentice Hall

This page lists repeated spams on behalf of Prentice Hall. Among other things, this company apparently believes it can be considered to have a prior business relationship with me if it has sent me an unsolicited and unwanted free sample of one of its textbooks.

• October 1997: I received this spam, claiming to be from Seth_H_Reichlin@prenhall.com (or, according to the message body, seth@prenhall.com) advertising mathematics textbooks. (The claim that I "teach Multivariable Calculus regularly" is, as usual with spammers, a blatant lie.) Complaining to the company brought the admission that the spammer knew people would be annoyed, but went ahead and did it anyway. I tracked down the authors of the spamvertised books, herb@riemann.math.mun.ca, rogers@math.mit.edu, sjcolley@math.oberlin.edu, and swami@math.mun.ca, using the American Mathematical Society Combined Membership List, but email to them brought either no response or merely platitudes.
• September 2000: I got this spam claiming to be from Math_Service@prenhall.com or maybe sreichli@prenhall.com (according to the headers), and containing the email address sara_bredbenner@prenhall.com. My complaint this time led to email correspondence in which eventually someone from the company seemed to be claiming that sending me an unsolicted free sample created a prior business relationship with me! Sam Spade revealed this information about the spamvertised site, including the contact address hostmaster@PRENHALL.COM.
• October 2003: I received this spam claiming to be from Math_Service@prenhall.com, also containing the email address sara_bredbenner@prenhall.com. They "appreciate" my considering a particular textbook. As a result of their spam, I am not considering this book.
• March 2004: I received this spam claiming to be from Math_Service@prenhall.com, also containing the email address sara_bredbenner@prenhall.com. They sent me an unsolicted free sample of a statistics textbook, and now send me spam asking what I think of it. I will answer here: this book is unacceptable because it is promoted via spam.