askpixie.
11.09.02
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Greetings,
I work with a company that submits websites to search engines and saw your listing on the Internet.
We can submit your website to over 300 of the world's best search engines and directories for a one time fee of $39.95. If you would like to put your website into the fast lane and receive more Internet traffic. For more details call our toll-free number (877) 284-8258 and speak with one our representatives.
All work is verified!
Regards,
Peter Murphy
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Mr. Murphy,
I like to think that any email that begins with telling me how I can unsubscribe or be removed from some master list is an email that I didn't really need to receive in the first place.
And, once again, I would like to ask what is it with all of the "We visited your site and it rules, but it also sucks because it isn't listed all over the place with every miniscule or mighty search engine available, which means that your site actually sucks, but if you give us money, we will make you rule again." email sent to the advice column?
I do have regular email for all of the other unsolicited spam that I receive, as well as regular correspondence from people I know or to whom I just talk.
Besides, if you really wanted my business so badly, you'd at least offer up some animated imagery to demonstrate how effective your business really is for people like me. At least the whores at TrafficMagnet have the decency to capture a screenshot of my site and use it as proof of their abilities to suck tiny unsuspecting stick people out of the air, using my website as some sort of crazy amplifier, and draw them inexorably towards a super-powered magnet, to what end I can't even possibly begin to imagine.
Wow. I guess that whole solo recording project didn't pan out so well, huh. I guess maybe you should have stuck with Love & Rockets or Bauhaus, if it meant that someday you wouldn't have to end up spam peddling web engine submission services to disinterested website operators.
How about instead of calling, I block your address, and then create a mail rule about deleting mail that contains the term " we can submit your website" or "submitting your website?"
-- pixie
P.S. Does the scramble of letters and numbers after letters like these actually mean anything, or is it just meant to look like some sort of official secret spammer's code?
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