When spam meets UCE

[undyingking]

Now this is definitely a piece of automatically-generated unsolicited commercial email. But would you call it spam? I would, but I guess it's a philosophical as much as a technical question. If they'd sent the same message manually via our contact form, rather than scouring the site to scrape up an obscure email address from a newsletter back issue

Comments

[ar_gemlad]

I got very similar spam for my work!email. What do you mean, a Google search for Oxford University doesn't put us top? I think it does, actually.

[undyingking]

A search for "best university in the world" doesn't - they might want to work on that :-)

[ar_gemlad]

Ah well, I think we're 5th at the moment. Think we ought to work on the cause rather than the Google result.

Wait, no. The other is probably easier :)

[mr_malk]

Yes, the "hijacker" page is a very adroit demonstration of How It Should Be Done, really, isn't it?

[undyingking]

Hope he gets some business out of it! That would be appropriate.