Like shooting fish in a barrel. At point-blank range. With an elephant gun!

[giza]

A colleague of mine got this e-mail sent to him earlier today:

Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 10:11:54 -0400
From: Roger Smith <Roger.smith@maila1.com>
To: John Levine
Subject: John, Maximize your database by adding Email addresses

Hi John,

Does Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail have records without email addresses in its internal database? Would you like to acquire that information? If your answer is yes, in just a few weeks, your organization can substantially increase - even double - its number of valid email addresses in its database using our email appending service.

Email address is one such information that most of the companies do not have in their database and in today's World email is the most economical way of communicating to people. It simply helps you save money on postal charges or telemarketing for that matter which is expensive.

John, If you do have a business database and want to append email addresses to communicate with your customers, we can help. We assure a fast turnaround and you pay only for appended records that don't opt-out ? Send us 50 records from your database and we could do a test append ? at no cost!

If there is someone else in your organization that I need to speak with in this regard, please let me now [sic].

Regards,

Roger Smith
800-886-1838
http://www.emailappenders.net

Comments

[taral.livejournal.com]

kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill ...

[lionman.livejournal.com]

You find the definition of irony, didn't you? ;-)

[branwyn.livejournal.com]

I take it that John is involved with CAUCE? That is amusing. :)

B.

[giza.livejournal.com]

Yeah. He admins our web server. He's also the guy that wrote Internet For Dummies (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764506749/102-7150667-3994520?v=glance).

Hehe

[tiggycat.livejournal.com]

OK, I am amused now. *tries to motivate self to fill out more job applications*

[kellic.livejournal.com]

LOL. That is the most amusing thing I've seen all week long. Thanks. Its a close second to someone from Viagra getting spam about well you can guess the rest... :x)

[bikerwalla.livejournal.com]

TARGET ACQUIRED

[giza.livejournal.com]

You may fire when ready, Gridley. (http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/reform/dewey_1)

[megadog.livejournal.com]

Blast off and nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

[my current spam-war is with a slew of mortgage-pimping morons hosted by CHINANET-SH at 218.83.155.135; Spamhaus-china has so far failed to be of assistance so I've taken to wielding the Red Flag of Attitude-Realignment via a couple of my CERNET contacts].

[tlttlotd.livejournal.com]

I guess piloting the Big-O wasn't interesting enough.