From: Jen Miller <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
To: sean@conman.org
Subject: Research on Mattresses
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 09:13:34 -0800
> Dear Editor,
My name is Jen and I’m a writer at Jen Reviews. I was doing research on mattresses and just finished reading your wonderful blog post: http://www.conman.org/asg-x/links.html [1]
In that article, I noticed that you cited a solid post that I’ve read in the past: https://www.slumberland.com/
I just finished writing a guide that is even more detailed, updated and comprehensive on how to choose a mattress - 9 factors to consider according to science. It is over 7,000 words and packed with practical tips and advice. You can find it here: https://www.jenreviews.com/mattress/
If you like the guide we’d be humbled if you cited us in your article. Of course, we will also share your article with our 50k newsletter subscribers and followers across our social platforms.
Either way, keep up the great work!
Warmly, > Jen
I swear, my pagerank [2] must be increasing or something, because I'm getting a lot more of these types of email lately. And it's clear the sender never bothered to look at the page as the page in question [3] isn't even a blog post. It's from way in the past—October of 1998, to be exact (and I know that because this page [4] caused Welcome Wagon International, Inc. [5] to send a “cease and desist” letter to my previous host for violating their copyright, thus forcing me to register my own (and still current) domain).
The http://www.slumberland.com/ link on the page was actually linking to Wendy Dunlap's homepage [6] and not to a matress company. To tell the truth, I would be surprised if any of the links on that page work—even the link to me (where my last name is mispelled “Conn**o**r”) points to a non-existant domain (which wasn't even correct when I mirrored that page in October of 1998). The only reason that page is still here is because “cool links don't change [7]” and I was doing the smooth transition from the old host to new one. In fact, until today, I had forgotten that page even exists.
And as for what ASG-X (alt.society.generation-x) actually was, will have to wait for another time.
[1] http://www.conman.org/asg-x/links.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
[3] http://www.conman.org/asg-x/links.html
[4] http://www.conman.org/asg-x/welcome.html
[5] https://www.welcomewagon.com/
[6] http://slumberland.org/wp/