[thesite] (OT) spam or what?

Peter peter at vardus.com
Thu Aug 30 03:23:03 CDT 2001


Apologies for the off topic.
<tip>
If you use one of the IE5+ based wysiwyg HTML editors, you probably want to 
parse the output and remove all crap. Especially if you paste from Word you 
get lots of crap HTML.
</tip>

Spam people are getting clever:
I got this email:

"I just tried to visit your website at www.xmliseasy.com
and got the following error in my Internet Explorer:
Cannot find server or DNS Error
It's probably just some router or something on the Internet, but
thought you would like to know.
Dirk Faust
http://www.atlantys.org/
A New Paradigm in Freedom."

And somehow I thought it sounded like email-collecting spam. But I thougt, 
let's be nice and answer anyway, just in case it's not. So a few days 
later, I got this back:

"Hello again,
Thanks for the reply! I know most people will not bother to tell
you if they have problems and will just move onto another site.
I found this out the hard way with some of the websites I run
when my ISP was down or as they put it "Their upstream provider"
was down. As a result I have enlisted the services of a company
called netmon, their site is www.netmon.com to monitor my site
(and my ISP). Their site is not much to look at but they do
offer some free monitoring and their rates are pretty good too
for the more serious stuff.
Once again thanks for the reply."

And now I really think this is spam. Clever spam, which is even worse...Or 
am I just getting paranoid????
Peter





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