Registrars don't have any special duty to refrain from sending spam (or letting someone else use their servers to do so, as the case may be). These days, it seems like Network Solutions is the single biggest sender of unwanted email to me, although I'm sure they'll tell you I 'opted in' by getting a domain name through them...
What I've been doing with the new registrars (and others) I've been dealing with is to sign up with a disposable spamgourmet email address (www.spamgourmet.com free and ad-free), then, after I've received some important email from them, I go back and 'permit' just the important addresses to keep sending me mail. Sure wish I had done this with NSI...
If you hate spam, use a good filtering service like www.spamgourmet.com... I sign up for goofy stuff all the time now, and haven't seen a spam increase (except on the ticker on that website...). With a site like ebay, you'd have to tweak the sender rules a bit to make sure the important messages got through, but, other than that, these services are actually getting easier to use than not.
As the replies above indicate, someone who makes an offer to form a contract (in this case a contract for employment) can revoke the offer (by saying something like 'I revoke!' or otherwise indicating revocation) before it is accepted. Several rules that aren't worth discussing here come into play to determine whether and when an offer is accepted and a contract is formed.
It sounds likely, though, that you had accepted a valid offer, forming a contract for employment with the company, and, for this reason, there was no longer any offer for the company to rescind (revoke), despite what the person who left you the message may have thought. If you really want to answer the question of whether a contract was formed, you need to carefully examine all the documents you signed to see whether there was still some decision that needed to be made by the company before you were actually hired. If there was, and no contract was formed, you're doomed.
If a contract was formed then, as yucky as it sounds, what happened legally is that you got terminated. As the other replies have indicated, the default rule in most states (assuming you're in the USA) is employment at will, which means you probably have no recourse unless your employment contract indicates otherwise -- such as providing for a 6 month term of employment or something like that. Of course, the state/country/jurisdiction you're in may provide additional protection for you, if it wasn't properly countered in the contract.
Ultimately, of course, if you really want to examine your alternatives this is question for your lawyer. Or - try a smaller company - I've always had better luck with them.
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check out this service if you'd like to keep signing up for spammy stuff but don't want the spam -- too bad there's no help for existing address proliferation
Another approach is to rig up a domain with blocking rules that allow for easy disposable email addresses -- that is, one or a few messages are allowed on a particular address, and the rest are/dev/null'ed. The trick here is to make defeating spam easier than accepting it in the short term, that is, when you're putting your address somewhere that's likely to get it added to a list. Without that, I've frequently taken short term convenience at the price of long term spam-saturation. I've had an address for years that is just snowballing with spam, but I'm reluctant to get rid of it.
Now I think spamgourmet.com will accept mail from other domains, if the MX record for the domain points to the server, but I'm not sure. It'd be interesting to find out one way or the other, and/or to move the site to a server where it could...
http://www.spamgourmet.com -- while surfing, you can invent limited-use email adddresses whenever you want them. Any mail sent to such an address after its limit has been reached becomes nothing more than a statistic...
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What I've been doing with the new registrars (and others) I've been dealing with is to sign up with a disposable spamgourmet email address (www.spamgourmet.com free and ad-free), then, after I've received some important email from them, I go back and 'permit' just the important addresses to keep sending me mail. Sure wish I had done this with NSI...
If you hate spam, use a good filtering service like www.spamgourmet.com... I sign up for goofy stuff all the time now, and haven't seen a spam increase (except on the ticker on that website...). With a site like ebay, you'd have to tweak the sender rules a bit to make sure the important messages got through, but, other than that, these services are actually getting easier to use than not.
It sounds likely, though, that you had accepted a valid offer, forming a contract for employment with the company, and, for this reason, there was no longer any offer for the company to rescind (revoke), despite what the person who left you the message may have thought. If you really want to answer the question of whether a contract was formed, you need to carefully examine all the documents you signed to see whether there was still some decision that needed to be made by the company before you were actually hired. If there was, and no contract was formed, you're doomed.
If a contract was formed then, as yucky as it sounds, what happened legally is that you got terminated. As the other replies have indicated, the default rule in most states (assuming you're in the USA) is employment at will, which means you probably have no recourse unless your employment contract indicates otherwise -- such as providing for a 6 month term of employment or something like that. Of course, the state/country/jurisdiction you're in may provide additional protection for you, if it wasn't properly countered in the contract.
Ultimately, of course, if you really want to examine your alternatives this is question for your lawyer. Or - try a smaller company - I've always had better luck with them.
www.spamgourmet.com"> check out this service if you'd like to keep signing up for spammy stuff but don't want the spam -- too bad there's no help for existing address proliferation
yes -- spamgourmet.com :)
Now I think spamgourmet.com will accept mail from other domains, if the MX record for the domain points to the server, but I'm not sure. It'd be interesting to find out one way or the other, and/or to move the site to a server where it could...
2's not surprising -- the site's very new, and most of the big block were from testing (friendly spammers?)
http://www.spamgourmet.com -- while surfing, you can invent limited-use email adddresses whenever you want them. Any mail sent to such an address after its limit has been reached becomes nothing more than a statistic...