Opting out: mailto://me is history
Today I’ve removed all instances of the thunderbird icon from my computers, and from my memory as well. I’m finally done with email. I’ve forwarded1) all my email accounts to paid-links@google.com, and here’s why:
Sebastian’s Pamphlets
Dear Sebastian,
I visited your web site earlier today and it seems you are also a seo company like us. As an SEO company we are in this field since 1998 in India(CHD). We have developed and maintained high quality websites.
We understand link building better than other because of our 11 year experience in linking industry and we follows the right manual link building approach in seeking, obtaining and attracting topic specific trusted inbound links. We have different themes related sites, directories and blogs and i would like to make a request to enter a mutual understanding by EXCHANGING LINKS with your website in order to get targeted visitors, higher ranking and link popularity.
We look forward to linking our site with yours, as exchanging links would Benefit both of us.
You\’ve received this email simply because you have been found while searching for related sites in Google, MSN and Yahoo If you do not wish to receive future emails, simply reply with this email and let us know.
Waiting for your positive and quick response.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT A SPAM OR AUTOMATED EMAIL, IT\’S ONLY A REQUEST FOR A LINK EXCHANGE. YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS HAS NOT BEEN ADDED TO ANY LISTS, AND YOU WILL NOT BE CONTACTED AGAIN.
Regards:
LaraLara
Megrisoft
lara@megrisoft.info
Direct message from Spamdiggalot
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our company proposal
Dear Sebastian Pamphlets,
My name is Vincentas and I am member of board in multi-location hosting company - Host1Plus (http://www.host1plus.com). Our servers are in U.S., U.K., the Netherlands, Germany, Lithuania and Singapore.
I just visited your website which I found interested and it provides excellent complementary content.
We would like to offer you free hosting for your site in Host1Plus hosting service the only thing we would ask you is to place our visitors counter to your website here is the link http://www.count1plus.com or it could be any other feature.So let me know if you are interested for my offer and I hope that offer is interested to you. Hope to hear you soon.
Kind Regards,
Vincentas GriniusHost1Plus.com Team
part of Digital Energy Technologies Ltd.
26 York Street
LondonW1U 6PZ
United Kingdom
T: +44 (0) 808 101 2277
E: info@host1plus.com
W: http://www.host1plus.comVincentas Grinius
Host1Plus.com
vincentas@host1plus.com
Link Exchange
Hi,
I think if I receive something like this I would pay more attention to that.
\”Dear Webmaster I am so happy to find your website and I like it so much! So I want to be a link partner of your site.If you are interested to make us your link partner , please inform us and we will be glad to make our link partner within 24 hours.
Our Link Details :
Title: Social Network Development UK
URL: http://www.dassnagar.co.uk/
Description: Web Development Company UK: Premier Interactive Agency, specializing in custom website design, Social network development, Sports betting portal development, Travel portal design, Flash gaming portal design and development.
Link\’s HTML Code:
<a href=\”http://www.dassnagar.co.uk/\” target=\”new\”>Social Network Development UK
</a> Web Development Company UK: Premier Interactive Agency, specializing in custom website design, Social network development, Sports betting portal development, Travel portal design, Flash gaming portal design and development.Please accept my apology if already partner or not interested.
Reasons to exchange link with us.
1. Our site is regularly crawled by google, so there are better chances googlebot visiting your website regularly.
2. We ask you to link back to only those pages where your url is present, indirectly you are increasing your own link value.
3. By linking to our articles and technology blog you can provide useful content to your visitors.This is an advertisement and a promotional mail strictly on the guidelines of CAN-SPAM act of 2003 . We have clearly mentioned the source mail-id of this mail, also clearly mentioned the subject lines and they are in no way misleading in any form. We have found your mail address through our own efforts on the web search and not through any illegal way. If you find this mail unsolicited, please reply with \”Unsubscribe\” in the subject line and we will take care that you do not receive any further promotional mail.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Kind regards,
Tom
Webmaster
Trust me, quitting email is a time-saver. And yes, I’ve an idea how to waste the additional spare time: Tomorrow I’ll have paid me a beer for a link to myself. And I can think of way more link monkey business that doesn’t involve email.
1) Actually, “forwarding” comes with a slighly shady downside:
If you continue to send me your (unsolicited) emails, you’ll find all your awkward secrets on literally tons of automatically generated Web pages –nicely plastered with very targeted ads and usually x-rated or otherwise NSFW banners–, hosted on throw-away domains.
I’m such a devil.
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Yeah, I do get a lot of those. And yes, email has been losing its usefulness over the last few years - i even find myself not checking it daily
This certainly sounds like a brave step, but I can see from your correspondence with various spam why you have decided to do so. I’d just like to know what your alternative is for email (for other kinds of correspondences)? How has it effected your lifestyle and business? How often do you get paid links?
[1: IM, Twitter, Friendfeed, and a business email acct. with a great spam filter for affiliate programs and such stuff. 2: I’ve gained spare time. 3: Anytime UPS or FedEx deliver new t-shirts ;)]