[thesite] (OT) spam or what?

[Daniel J. Cody]

+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

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!