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   Why bother reading pages when you can just spam them and hope for the best
                                        
> From: "Ashley Knowles" <leah@sponsorconnection.org>
> To: "sean" <sean@conman.org>
> Subject: Thank You for Supporting Veterans on boston.conman.org
> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 12:24:48 -0800
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I came across this page of your site http://boston.conman.org/2004/11 and
> noticed that you are linking to http://www.va.gov/opa/vetsday and other
> resources for servicemen and women. I wanted to thank you for supporting
> veterans and active military. This is a mission I have been deeply involved
> in as well. If I may have just a moment of your time, I wanted to talk to
> you about a serious health struggle among veterans - and also suggest an
> addition to your page.
> 
> [ … ]
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Ashley Knowles
> 
> Outreach Coordinator
> 
> outreach@advocatesforhealth.org
> 

It's only because today is such a great day [1] that this spam email caught
my eye. I know this is a rhetorical question to Ashley but … did you even
bother to read the post [2] in question? Did you even bother to read the page
[3] you linked to to see if it's relevant to your organization?

No? Is that because you just did a search for “Vererans Day” and spammed
every site that linked to that page [4]? Yes? Do you realize you have two
completely different email addresses? No? Is that because you don't care?

Gaaaah!

Update just two hours later …

> From: "Ashley Knowles" <outreach@advocatesforhealth.org>
> To: "sean" <sean@conman.org>
> Subject: Correction - Thank You for Supporting Veterans on boston.conman.org
> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 14:15:23 -0800
> 
> Hello,
> 
> *I'm resending this because my recent e-mail was mistakenly sent through a
> colleagues account. Apologies if you have received two.
> 
> I came across this page of your site http://boston.conman.org/2004/11 and
> noticed that you are linking …
> 
> [ … ]
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Ashley Knowles
> 
> Outreach Coordinator
> 
> outreach@advocatesforhealth.org
> 

Really?

Sigh.


[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2016/03/02.1
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2004/11/11.1
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2004/11
[4] http://www.va.gov/opa/vetsday

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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