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               Yea … I guess my site is about Florida … kinda …

> **From:** <[email protected] [1]>
>  **To:** Sean <[email protected]>
>  **Subject:** I have seen your website.
>  **Date:** Mon, 3 Mar 2003 10:49:18 -0500
>
>
> I see you have a Florida Related Website. We have some websites that your
> visitors might find helpful, useful and perhaps can Save them some money.
> We do offer reciprocal links on these websites please view the Link to us
> pages.
>

Some spam from “<[email protected] [2]>”

At least this one is marginally targetted towards me, and isn't offering to
increase some part of my anatomy or wanting me to participate in extracting
millions of dollars from some African nation. Yes, my site is related to
Florida in as much that I live in Florida and anything I mention about
Florida usually isn't all that positive [3].

Now, I was sent four links to various Florida coupon sites, and seeing how
I'm desperate for any diversions lately, I decided to visit one or two of the
sites and see how bad they might be. Typical of such sites:

> Florida Dining Coupons FREE. Florida Dining Guide with FREE R (p2 of 4)
>
> Link to Us [4]
>  Suggested FL Links [5]
>
> [Choose a Florida City]
>      Find a Restaurant Here
>  [LeftTopBlueCorner.gif]
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> [22.jpg]
>  [21.jpg]
>  [24.jpg] [welcome.jpg]
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> to the web's most comprehensive source for Florida Dining Discounts. You
> will find Restaurants that represent the absolute best quality and value
> across the State of Florida.
>
> Select a City Location from the list above …
>

“Florida Dining Coupons FREE. [6]”

Oh, did I mention I was using Lynx [7]? Isnt' it lovely? And while I can
select a city, there isn't an associated SUBMIT button to send the
information. This also fails on Mozilla [8].

But I suspect it works flawlessly in that other browser, the one made by
Microsoft [9].

> Florida Dining Coupons welcomes you to link to us and to submit your site
> to us to be featured with our other recommended Florida web sites [10]. The
> only qualification is that your site must be Florida related or be a
> service that could benefit our members. Submission of your link does not
> guarantee it will appear on our list of sites. Copy our HTML (HyperText
> Markup Language) code.
>

“Florida Dining Coupons: Please Link To Us [11]”

The HTML is your typical version 4 browser code with obligatory <FONT> tags
with Microsoft specific fonts. But I submitted this entry to the form; let's
see how they respond …

[1] mailto:[email protected]
[2] mailto:[email protected]
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2003/01/07.2
[4] http://www.floridadiningcoupons.com/link.htm
[5] http://www.floridadiningcoupons.com/links.htm
[6] http://www.floridadiningcoupons.com/
[7] http://lynx.browser.org/
[8] http://www.mozilla.org/
[9] http://www.microsoft.com/
[10] http://www.floridadiningcoupons.com/links.htm
[11] http://www.floridadiningcoupons.com/link.htm

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