[thesite] (OT) spam or what?

Ron Dorman rwd at csi1st.net
Thu Aug 30 10:10:40 CDT 2001


"Daniel J. Cody" wrote:

> +1 on that.. i got something similar about the starkmedia.com domain.. i
> got a kick out of it because even though he got a dns error in IE,
> somehow he could send email to my starkmedia.com account :)
>
> yes yes they're getting clever

I asked that question in my reply, most of the reason I replied.  I asked if the
site was down, how did he know where to send email.  When I got the response
back, no answer to my question, it was then obvious what it was.

> Ron Dorman wrote:
> 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
> >>
> >
> > probably not.  I have the exact same emails here.  Exact same reaction and
> > reason for reply.  This one's clever, or was!
>
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