[thesite] (OT) spam or what?

Ron Dorman rwd at csi1st.net
Thu Aug 30 08:03:30 CDT 2001


Peter wrote:

> 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

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

Ron D.





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