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Sl'askia 03-15-2002 09:13 PM
Ok...why the heck did they send this to ME!?
 
I got this in an email today...

Dear Sir/Madam,

We have visited your website: www.oddworldian.net and found that you didn't register it with enough search engines. As a result, this may impede your business expansion. We believe that our service will definitely increase the browse count of your website. At present, there are about 500,000 search engines in the whole world, but fortunately FullPromote is the rare breed that can help you register your website with the famous search engine companies. What we provide is a kind of
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We will try our best to publicize your website.

Best Regards,


Yes...this is obviously spam mail, (at first glance I thought it was OWI saying something about the small(and unfinished) page on Oddworld I have on my site, but it's not) but the thing is this is obviously (to us oddworld fans anyway) Sydney's discontinued site, but I got the spam mail about it.

Weird eh?

Sydney 03-15-2002 09:41 PM
That is strange! Understandably, I also got the email. I can't explain why you would get it too. Was your email address ever on my site, fan art for example?

Sl'askia 03-15-2002 09:43 PM
Yeah I had two of my fics on that site for a time...so that's probably how they got it....yet that was age's ago...

dark_xinos 03-16-2002 06:13 AM
That is odd. Dosent it say the email addres of the the sender? My email service shows that...

Sl'askia 03-16-2002 11:23 AM
the email addy is just a reply addy to this fullpromote.com place. So I guess if I block it I won't be getting email from this place anymore...*grins*

Lampion 03-16-2002 01:09 PM
I received the same e-mail ,actually twice. I guess it's because there were two of my pictures in the oddworldian.net fan art section, with my e-mail address below them.

Darn spammers...:fuzmad:

Wolfpac 03-18-2002 11:57 AM
So the Truth finally comes Out... Dragadon is really Sydney in Drag :lol:

But I think it's just from a program that collects e-mail address.

Cloverfield 03-19-2002 01:05 AM
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Originally posted by Wolfpac
But I think it's just from a program that collects e-mail address.
That would be it ... my boss wanted me to look at a program that actually scours the net for any email addresses that are on a website. Usually you put in a criteria or someting.

Mind you, I totally disagreed with that program and what my boss wanted to do... as I HATE spam in any form and disagree with it. I had such a laugh when reading the documentation though, as it kept going on about how good spam was, and how you can get away with it, and how successful it is! Yeah right!!!

Abe Babe...

Teal 03-19-2002 07:37 AM
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Originally posted by Abe Babe
I had such a laugh when reading the documentation though, as it kept going on about how good spam was, and how you can get away with it, and how successful it is! Yeah right!!!
I got an email the other day advertising one of those programs, as well... Needless to say it got consigned to where all the rest of the spam goes...

*flush*