Re: ONLINE-ADS>> Catalog Mart

Donna Dolezal Zelzer (djz_at_efn.org)
Sat, 3 May 1997 20:04:48 -0700

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At 5:44 PM -0400 5/3/97, Bob Stewart made this statement of rare insight:

> >MIME-Version: 1.0
> >To: whatsnew_at_gardenweb.com
> >Subject: Contact over 45,731 crafts consumers TODAY!!
> >X-Url: http://www.gardenweb.com/
> >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> >X-Diagnostic: Unprocessed
> >X-Envelope-To: whatsnew-request
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> >
> >Dear Website owner:
> >
> >How would you like to be able to email a sales message to up to 45,731
> >consumers who voiced an interest in buying crafts and craft supplies online?
> >
> >Being a commercial site I'm sure you're interested in driving qualified
> >traffic to your homepage. Until now you had two options: wait for
> >customers to find you or run an expensive banner ad campaign. Neither

I got this same spam a week or so ago.

But look at the url of the part of my site that they got my address from:
http://www.efn.org/~djz/birth/MT/Breastfeed/foodforthought.html

tell me, what does that have to do with crafts and craft supplies??!!

My site is not about crafts at all (I think the url makes they clear, if a
human ever actually saw it) -- they're obviously just pulling email address
off web pages.

Donna

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