UD doesn’t know where on Professor McDonald’s list of priorities sitting on the board of a notorious spamming firm appears, but I guess it’s important to him, or he wouldn’t be on the board.
On the other hand, he doesn’t list the board membership on his otherwise fulsome bio at Stanford. Maybe he doesn’t want to be publicly identified with a business that uses aliases.
While the Better Business Bureau has registered only two complaints for QuinStreet under advertising and sales practices (and several more in other categories), other complaints have been filed under QuinStreet’s aliases — such as VendorSeek.
It’s not spam anyway. QuinStreet/VendorSeek is performing the public service of keeping us informed — every day, every minute — about new products.