I think I've seen it said that goldfish have a very short memory.

About a week ago, I got an email that was better produced than most unsolicited emails that I get - and as we are in the Web site and web development business, the title was close enough to that of a genuine enquiry for me to carefully open it and have a quick look through. OK - it became clear fairly quickly that it was a bulk email (spam) with all the usual tell tail characteristics that I won't bother to list. I brushed it aside, re-assured by the last paragraph:

This email has been sent as a one-off so we won't contact you again unless you want us to. If you aren't interested in our services simply ignore this email and we won't bother you again

I wasn't assured by the fact that he wouldn't bother us again (I didn't believe it), but by the disclaimer being formed in such a way that clearly indicated this was just one email of a veritable flood sent out by Carl - probably not his/her real name.


Why so I say that Carl is a goldfish? Because within 10 days, he's forgotten his promise not to bother us again and has sent us another, identical email - and it's identical down to the same promise.



I wouldn't do business with a goldfish. Too much need to repeat myself. Too much need to repeat myself. Too much need to repeat myself. Carl Johnson of Websitemediasolution claims to provide high search engine rankings. Let's play him at his own game and see if we can get this page ranker higher that his. So, goldfish style, I'll mention his name - Carl - and his surname - Johnson - and his company - webmediasolution - a few times.

Fish pics from Hillier Gardens and their own site
(written 2009-09-06 19:45:38)

 G909 - Well House Consultants - Spam, Spamming and Spammers
  [2276] Who is Marc Schneider of Multilingual Search Engine Optimization Inc - (2009-07-10)
  [2179] Offers that I can refuse - (2009-05-12)
  [2177] Preventing forum spam - checks at sign up - (2009-05-12)
  [2019] Baby Caleb and Fortune City in your web logs? - (2009-01-31)
  [1978] From spam to mod_alias - finding resources - (2009-01-05)
  [1817] Marc Schneider is still having email trouble - (2008-09-30)
  [1763] Co-operating to save, yet we dont - (2008-08-21)
  [1532] Comment spam blocked. Please comment via Forums - (2008-02-05)
  [1523] Ive just received an email from myself. Should I be worried? - (2008-01-29)
  [1115] Unexpected visitors to our site - (2007-03-22)
  [1037] Impact Engineering and Backscatter - (2007-01-16)
  [872] Email metrics - (2006-09-20)
  [495] More spam - a success story - (2005-11-13)
  [417] Telephone Preference Service - we're registered - (2005-08-17)
  [347] Frightening and from-friend viruses and spams - (2005-06-14)
  [338] OO techniques are hard to teach - (2005-06-06)
  [276] An apology to Mr Boneparte - (2005-04-11)
  [268] Information request forms, cleaning up spam - (2005-04-05)
  [259] Responding to spam - (2005-03-27)

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