Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 17:04:11 -0500 To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com> Subject: [WSFA] Re: How to kill Yahoo spam Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> At 10:05 PM 04/01/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com> wrote: > > BTW - I am suddenly getting e-mails from total strangers trying to > > sell me stuff, and until recently (i.e., we started the WSFA list) I > > wasn't getting it. I don't know if there is a correlation or not, > > but it is an observation. > >I confess. I sold all WSFA email addresses to an email marketing firm. *snerk!* >So that they'll continue to do business with me, please give money >to everyone who spams^W sends you once-in-a-lifetime ground floor >business opportunities. You really can turn $5 into $50,000 in six >weeks. I know it because I read it somewhere. And you really do want >to see pictures of naked celebrities. I've heard that some of those >pictures are real, and not just a celebrity's head pasted on a Playboy >centerfold. LOL! >The best deal of all is to invest in a copy of "stealth" email >marketing software, a list of two hundred million "opt in" opportunity >seeker email addresses, and a list of a dozen made-up laws which >explain why your email can't be considered spam. (That's right, if >the recipient considers your email spam, he can go to jail!) That >leaves only the question of what to market using this powerful >wealth-building tool. I recommend selling pirated copies of that >software and that list, just as most of its buyers do. > >But wait! That's not all! Act now, and you get an additional list >of forty angry and threatening messages suitable for sending to the >anti-spammers^W anti-commerce radicals who will promptly get your >account closed down. Threaten them with lawsuits, and with grave >bodily harm! Explain that they were on an "opt-in" list, and if they >don't know this they're idiots! Insist that they couldn't possibly >have traced you since you were using "stealth" software which forges >your address, and relays all your messages of a school for the blind >in Zamboanga! Normally selling for $199.99, this list of forty angry >and threatening messages is yours free if you act today. Operators >are standing by. (We're too cheap to buy them chairs.) >-- ROFL! That's wonderful! Candy