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| Letters to Pigdog -- Reported 2000-10-17 by Johnny Royale | |
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Here's an interesting item that just showed up in our mailbag. Seems some freaks in Germany are convinced that Pigdog is part of the great Tellytubbie Conspiracy. I'm figuring that some WebCrawler ran across this wonderful old RatSnatcher article, and we ended up in some half-assed marketing daturbase. And the funny thing is that he insists that this is piece of SPAM is confidential information. No, I'm sorry Robert, if you want something to remain confidential with Pigdog, you ask us first and maybe, just maybe, we'll agree to let you be one of our sooper serkit confidential information sources. But don't ever tell us to do anything... like delete an email, or not copy it or even email you to unsubscribe us from your damn SPAM list. You unsubscribe us. Cause if you sending us unsolicited email - you should know, we're JOURNALISTS GODDMANNIT, and we'll publish WHATEVER the hell we want! Oh, and one more thing, Robert... Tellytubbies suck a big gooey wad of hate and I'm laughing at you because you have to deal with them all day long. Enjoy your small pathetic life, Robert. Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 13:50:51 +0200 From: Robert Kleinke (Bitways) To: barfback@pigdog.org Subject: Urgent inquiry for teletubby toys Urgent inquiry for Dear Sirs, We are an international trading company, mainly serving the European industry. The Bitways Group purchases globally on own account and then resells the products to various clients. Our aim is to source globally and to offer our clients the best prices worldwide. From one of our own or rented databases we have retrieved your address as potential supplier of the product(s) we would like to purchase this time. If you can promptly give us your very best quote you might be chosen as the supplier we have been looking for as early as next week. At the moment we are looking for teletubby articles. Please offer any kind of stocklots you might have available. Please provide 3 (three) samples for evaluation purposes. In conclusion I would like to ask you to send your company's detailed address, your bank detail and pictures of the inquired item(s) along with your quotation. Please let us know your best quote as this will enable us to work more efficiently. Looking forward to hearing from you soon, we are Yours sincerely,
Bitways Global Sourcing
GmbH D-20459 Hamburg Fon: +49-(0)40-28800-304 This email is confidential.
If you are not the intended recipient, you must not copy,
disclose or use its contents. If you have received it in error,
please inform us immediately by return email and delete the
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