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    Default New Online knife shop just opened

    I suspect others here got the same email, for the grand opening of this site:

    http://www.shopginga.com

    I can only think its either affiliated with the Japancentre or Bluewayjapan given that they are the only two knife related folks that have this address, but might be completely unrelated.

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    Thanks for the link, Soen! Other than the name "Ginga," I can't see anything there that makes me think of JKI, but every store that sells waterstones and/or Japanese-style knives is good in my book.
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    Consensus on another forum is that knifeforums.com sold email addresses to this guy. Nothing illegal about that, just annoying. knifeforums.com, you may have noticed, is the site that takes 6 seconds to load a page because of all the ads it's serving.

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    Yeah I wasn't thrilled to be getting junk email while I was working yesterday, guess I need to go delete my KF profile seeing as I never post there anyways

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    I don't have a KF account, very odd

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    I have a KF account and no email, but my understanding was that it may have been people on their mailing list...

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    I'm a mod on KF and this is the first time I've heard of this new site or of KF forwarding an email list to another site - I don't believe it happened that way. The only marketing emails I get are from sites that I've signed up to for newsletters

    Will check up on it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wsf View Post
    Consensus on another forum is that knifeforums.com sold email addresses to this guy. Nothing illegal about that, just annoying. knifeforums.com, you may have noticed, is the site that takes 6 seconds to load a page because of all the ads it's serving.
    The consensus from that 'other' Forum is in error and I respectfully request that you please stop propagating this lie.

    Knifeforums is now Owned by F & W Media (Blade Magazine) and they have said over and over that they will never sell the e-mails.

    BTW - Being an old salesman I don't have a problem with advertising - but I can understand your frustration at the time it can take to load and refresh web pages. However it isn't solely due to the ads - I have similar problems with another site that doesn't have any ads.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Soen View Post
    I don't have a KF account, very odd

    As I said above. This is pretty conclusive for me KF has nothing to do with it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by antonio_luiz View Post
    ....BTW - Being an old salesman I don't have a problem with advertising - but I can understand your frustration at the time it can take to load and refresh web pages. However it isn't solely due to the ads - I have similar problems with another site that doesn't have any ads.
    i'm an IT guy. my impression is that KF is slow not b/c of the ads. it looks like their server is constantly bogged down. that's my guess. not to slam them. i like the forum, but it has to have one of the slowest servers i've seen. it's quite annoying. i would visit more often otherwise.

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