As a joke brought up in a conversation with Mamamontezz and myself I changed my name to American Warspammer for a day. The spam people a quick with this stuff, or rather, the anti-spam people are quick with this stuff. I've never talked about this before and never recieved spam complaints from anyone either, particularly the porn variety. I'm not supporting the following e-mail but I just thought it was rather funny that within a day (more like 12 hours) of changing my name I get hit with something like this:
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>From: "Pat McGrath"
>To:
>Subject: Request from Morality in Media/ObscenityCrimes.org
>Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:26:54 -0400
>
>Dear Jeremy:
>
>I discovered American Warspammer while exploring the TTLB Ecosystem. And I'd like to put a proposition to you:
>
>Are your visitors concerned about the tidal wave of Internet pornography? Have their computers ever been mouse-trapped by a pornography site? Are their in-boxes stuffed with porn spam? Are they concerned about their children surfing to a pornography site with a URL misspelled to deceive them?
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>And: Do they want to TAKE ACTION against this -- instead of merely playing defense by filtering? We've got the tool for them -- an EASY way for Mr. & Mrs. American Websurfer to FIGHT BACK against Internet pornography!
>
>If it is, you might be interested in adding a public service link to the OBSCENITYCRIMES.ORG Web site on your blog. Here's how "The Dawn Patrol" is doing it:
>http://www.jtanzer.com/dawneden/blogger.html
>http://www.dawneden.com/2004_10_01_archive.html#109816931064380535
>
>To help you out, I've set up this page on ObscenityCrimes.org:
>http://www.obscenitycrimes.org/graphics/BannerSamples.cfm
>with four GIF format buttons -- three 125x125; one 88x32 -- that you can grab for your own site. These buttons were designed by fellow blogger Marty McKeever ( http://www.vigilancematters.com).
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>Please point your links to our root URL, http://www.obscenitycrimes.org
>
>ObscenityCrimes.org allows Mr. & Mrs. Websurfer to report the URLs of hard-core pornography sites. We then take the data collected and forward it to the U.S. Justice Department and to Federal prosecutors for investigation into possible violations of the Federal obscenity laws.
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>ObscenityCrimes.org is a project of Morality in Media, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, which has been combating hard-core pornography since 1962.
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>I invite you to tour ObscenityCrimes.org to see for yourself how it works. If you have any questions, you can call me or e-mail me at the contact info below.
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>Very truly yours,
>
>PATRICK McGRATH
>Director of Media Relations
>Morality in Media, Inc.
>475 Riverside Drive #239
>New York NY 10115
>1-212-870-3217 Phone
>1-212-870-2765 Fax
>mim@moralityinmedia.org E-mail
>Web sites:
>http://www.moralityinmedia.org
>http://www.obscenitycrimes.org
>
>Would you like to sign up for the MIM E-mail newsletter list? Click here:
>http://tool.donation-net.net/entrance/enter.cfm?dn=1021
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In memorial to this e-mail I will provide my one and only porn link brought to you by The Big Dick: Private Shots. Yes, it's real porn. If your under 18 DO NOT CLICK THE LINK. (like that's going to stop you) Oh well, have a good weekend.