My new reply to stupid e-mails
I opened an e-mail of a non-blackhat gambling site I haven’t attended for a while and found around 300 link requests and some guy promising to send my advertisement to 2.5 million emails for free if I am a non profit organisation. Yeah, my gambling site is a non profit organisation.
I spend some time thinking and now I present to you my new template reply to template link exchange emails:
Dear Sir/Madam/Robot,
I have noticed that you e-mailed me with a request for a link exchange. Ufortunately, I’m not interested in your proposal, thus I wasted my very valuable time reading it. Since you took the liberty of requesting something from me, while also wasting my precious time, I also have a proposal for you.
My proposal is that after reading this e-mail you never send me another e-mail requesting a link exchange. Failure to do so, means that I will have to invite you to play googlebowling with me. Googlebowling is a my favourite sport and I urge you to read more about it here: http://www.google.com.gr/search?q=googlebowling
Regards,
Administrator
Feel free to use this template for all your link exchange replies.
7 Comments
October 14th, 2005 at 9:30 pm
I love that.. ok that was a good one.. I’ll keep that for future emails.. thanks.
October 25th, 2005 at 4:31 am
what a ‘tard response. Anyway, why would I want to discourage people from linking to me? Just another black-hat wannabe who can’t see the forest for the trees……….
October 25th, 2005 at 6:56 am
Anyway, why would I want to discourage people from linking to me?
I don’t. I only want to discourage the ones I find annoying.
So, do you like people mailing you a list of 30 gambling sites under 20 different names and email adresses, asking you to copy paste the whole list on your site?
November 26th, 2005 at 1:31 am
Like any unwanted crap, the moment you reply you give the SOBs confirmation that your email is a ‘live’ one that gets through to the sysop.
Myself, I would not reply at all to this a-hole.
November 26th, 2005 at 4:25 am
Actually, a couple of the usuals have stopped e-mailing me, so I guess it works sometimes. I don’t get much spam sent at random so confirming my adress isn’t a big issue.
December 2nd, 2005 at 6:23 am
I say, why bother, simply ignore them, just like any other spam
December 30th, 2005 at 9:56 pm
I do not know whether I’m getting a bit philosophical on this comment. But on the broader perspective, there falls two categories of people, one who can act on or act against spam, and the others who possibly can’t do anything, and just ignore it. Few years back, I remember an application named “Spam Punisher”, which would automatically retrieve the header details, process it to get the mailer’s details, and would post a complain to his/her ISP, and few organisations that claims to be acting against spam. I seriously have not seen any reduction in the number of spams… So much of the time, it’s like, not-acting = can’t help it.
I loved your reply template. But seriously, i would love to know how to carry out the ‘GoogleBowling’ LOL.
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