RE: FN-FORUM A Ridiculous Reaction.....

date posted 28th January 2001 12:29

Priceless!

In article [EMAIL REMOVED]
[EMAIL REMOVED] (John Risby) wrote:

>
>
> Darren,
>
> You shouldn't be shocked. A quick search on deja.com shows you have
> previously posted the following messages :-
>
> "FREE MONEY!!!" in uk.adverts.computer and uk.finance saying "Some
> interesting ways of making your computer pay for itself. They really
> work"
> and a link to a site
>
> "Very Good IT Consultancy" in alt.computer.consultants, saying "This
> company
> has been doing some amazing things to save its clients money." with a
> link
> to
> a company that you own the domain name of.
>
> and also a response to somebody's query on cd production where you tell
> the
> person to email yourself at a different (just) address and say "He is
> very
> good at things like that !!!"
>
> Shocked? No. Caught? Yes.
>
> John
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Darren Spink
> > Sent: 26 January 2001 16:23
> > To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > Subject: FN-FORUM A Ridiculous Reaction.....
> >
> >
> > Hi everyone
> >
> > Well, I am glad it is the end of the week, but I wish it had
> > ended slightly
> > better.
> >
> > In an effort to increase business, I posted 1 message once to 5
> > news groups
> > (3 yorkshire based and 2 national) regarding my skills and services.
> >
> > You would not believe the reaction. My Site host has been
> > contacted and has
> > been asked to remove my site, my ISP (BT Openworld) has been
> > asked to cancel
> > my ADSL account, the "Moderator" (Obviously a trainee hitler) has also
> > contacted the police and and the trading standards dept.
> >
> > All this for saying that I can design web sites and write
> > software......What
> > a wonderful end to the week.
> >
> > Has anyone else had any similar experiences from these kind of
> > people/news-groups ??
> >
> >
> > Completely shocked.....Darren
> >
>