Mistargeted spam

[jwgh]

I was spammed by a site apparently devoted to vegetables, which suggested I put a link to their site on one of my episodes of Scientifiction Theater, the one entitled The Power of Brine. Whee!

Subject: Re: www.jwgh.org/ark/articles/scientifiction.html
To: spog@jwgh.org
From: vegetables@[redacted].com
Reply-To: spog@jwgh.org <- Hm, this is clever

Hello,

I checked your website http://www.jwgh.org/ark/articles/scientifiction.html and I believe it is compatible with mine, and I think it would be great to make a link exchange. My name is Paul Cabay and this is my site: [redacted]/vegetables.

What do you say? If the answer is yes then all you have to do is to visit my online submission form [redacted]/vegetables/form.html and introduce your data there and your link will be up on my site in a few hours.

And this is my linking information :

URL: http://www.[redacted]/vegetables/ Title: Vegetables Directory Description: vegetables related news, books and web resources

or just cut & paste this HTML

-START -

<a href="http://www.[redacted].com/vegetables/">Vegetables Directory</a> - vegetables related news, books and web resources.<br><br>

-STOP -

Thank you kindly!
Paul Cabay

P.S. Should you consider my email unwanted, you don't need to worry because I will not email you again unless you contact me.

Comments

[jwgh]

OK, reading this I got curious and decided to see what the site was. It appears to be some kind of automatically generated portal about vegetables. There are links to the following:

• A cookbook.
• A collection of Fox Trot cartoons titled Your Momma Thinks Square Roots Are Vegetables
• A book about how to make soap using herbs and vegetables.
• A book about gardening.

(If the suggestion that The Power of Brine would fit right in didn't raise my suspicion that the thing was automatically generated, the inclusion of the Fox Trot book certainly would have.)

The site is hosted by utyx.com. Searching for that domain finds at least one other almost identical email about a topic other than vegetables.

How long before they email me inviting me to join their naked Marina Sirtis gifs webring?

[grumblepants.livejournal.com]

Automatically generated vegetable portals will be the death of teh intarweb!!!1!!