I'm checking my email when I come across this:
**From:** <promotion_ideas@email.com> [1] > **To:** Sean Conner > **Date:** Wed, 2 Feb 2000 13:45:01 > **Subject:** Sean, your website…
This message is for Sean Conner > Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
Hi Sean,
My first thought is Holy Cow! The Sun Sentinel [2] wants to do a story on my site! And they even spelled my name right!
In my excitement I skip a crucial paragraph and pick up here:
While visiting your site I noticed your web pages could use a few simple adjustments to make them easier to find on the search engines. I also noticed your page layout and customer navigation could be optimized to increase customer responsiveness.
Okay, now I know something is wrong. My pages are already easy to find on the search engines. Heck, they're the only agents coming to my website with any regularity and any searches on “Sean Conner” or “Captain Napalm” usually bring back links to my website on the first or second page (at worse). Now, what was that paragraph I missed?
I am writing to you because you are listed as the site administrator at www.sunsent.com and I have some information that should be of interest to you.
What the … ? News to me. Quick check at Network Solutions:
Registrant:
Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel (SUNSENT-DOM)
200 East Las Olas Blvd
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
Domain Name: SUNSENT.COM
Administrative Contact:
Meiners, Michael (MM130) meiners@SUNSENT.COM
(305) 356-4744
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Conner, Sean (SC47) spc@armigeron.com
(407) 395-6655
Record last updated on 16-Dec-1996.
Record created on 16-Mar-1994.
Database last updated on 2-Feb-2000 03:18:36 EST.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS.GATE.NET 199.227.0.9
NWFOCUS.WA.COM 192.135.191.3
Ah, now it's clear. Spam.
I was most likely still working at CyberGate [3] when this was registered. At the time, I was Head Sysadmin, Head Programmer, Head Technical Support and Chief Bottle Washer (I left shortly thereafter, that being my first real experience with the whole net.slave thang). The records never got updated.
And I know the email was spam because the [4] site [5] doesn't exist anymore.
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