OK. Normally I’m pretty good at sniffing out spam: I don’t want to meet sexy singles in my area, as I have the only one I need; my first name isn’t Iam; I don’t stand to inherit $680 from anyone; I have no desire to increase my cup size 2 inches in a month, etc.
Then I get an email with this as the subject line:
“V:: Your posts on Straight Dope”
minus, of course, quotation marks.
Here’s the text of the email:
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 19:21 EST
From: <e-mail addy deleted>
To: <e-mail addy deleted>
Hey there iampunha,
I wanted to say hello and to invite you to check out link deleted :: We are
an artistic development website that caters to musicians, artists, designers, and
intelligent creatives. This part of the site is our discussion collaboration board.
We are growing and need deep thinkers like yourself to spawn thought for others to run
with.
Also, we are in the process of creating our first issue of our magazine. methodLab
Chronicles:: a lo-fi super meGazine. We are looking for great writers for that as well,
if you are interested perhaps we could work something out, down the road.
Please check it out, and help the community grow with intelligence. We would appreciate
your intellectual assets. We are inviting other intelligent members from straight dope, so
feel free to invite some of your friends, as well.
Travis Wright
mediaDirector
method Laboratories
e-mail addy deleted
Main Site
:: link deleted
ThinkLab
:: link deleted
Art Gallery
:: link deleted
Submit Your Work
:: link deleted
----- (i.e., this is the end of the email)
Now, usually anyone who takes the initiative to email me signs their dopername (or their actual name, and indicates such) in email. I know of nobody named Travis Wright on here, and the only person I can think of who’s even remotely close (Steve Wright) is nothing at all like this.
So I am temporarily concluding that this is spam. The website this directs me to looks to be little better than a board for 1337 733N5.
Just what … the hell … is this place? I’m not an artist, musician or designer, and I think it’d be a stretch to say I’m an intelligent creative (whatever THAT is).