Social Bookmarking Companies addressing Spam Issues

It has come to my attention over the past few months (through user feed-back and my own research), that a Social Bookmarking Site (Linkatopia) and some online posts think OnlyWire ("OW") is a Spamming Tool. I want to use this forum to address this issue.

OnlyWire promotes a Spam Free environment and we take this subject very serious. OnlyWire prevents Spamming by implementing throttle control, email verification, and limits on users accounts.
Its unfortunate that a few are able to get around our controls, break the rules and abuse the system. We try to be very proactive and do everything we can to prevent it - including disabling accounts.

Unfortunately, Linktopia feels the need to advise their new users on their sign-up page wwwlinkatopia.com/signup_part1 not to use the OW service and even misquote the OW terms of service. I feel this is not only unprofessional, but not the best business practice. I have tried to contact them direct to discuss their issues, but they do not respond to my requests.

I use them as an example as they seem to be blatant about pointing the finger at the provider and not the violating user. I believe this type of attack would be similar to Yahoo placing a message on their Mail sign up page for their new users not to use Google mail as it is a spamming tool. It would be a bit ridiculous to point the finger at the provider and not the violator - don't you think?

To end this post and as Linktopia states on their site, "Can't we all just get along?", OnlyWire is constantly trying to prevent spam and with the support of others in our space, I think we can. We are open to resolving this issue with Linktopia and any others. Linktopia provides a very valuable service and we would like to continue supporting their service.

If you have any comments on this issue or any suggestions on how we can further prevent spam - please contact me direct at rrouland@onlywire.com or comment below.