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From: tycub@***
Subject: Missing the target

I have loved surfing your personals in the past, but now it's so complicated...too bad. I would join again, too expensive.

Here's the punchline. BME had personals a long time ago that were nice and simple. Then when IAM came along, I upgraded the personals to a much more robust version — they could do a lot more, but overall, people preferred the old one. So I went back to the old system. SAME AS BEFORE. And they're STILL 100% FREE to use… So… If anyone complains that they're too complicated now, since the systems is the same, it must mean that they're getting stupider…

Speaking of stupid people, here are two of them now:

From: karol@***
Subject: tralala

HHHHHHAAAAAALLLLLLOOOO
what is this page about?
BYE

From: NattiBlue22@***
Subject: (no subject)

i am really interested in seeing some of the work that you do if there is a website where i can actually go please let me know...

I'd like to know how someone could find a reference to me and not have included a reference to the website… And my email isn't that prominent on the site — how does a person not know these answers by the time they find the email?

This next bunch is truly bizarre. Instead of writing me an email, he sends me blank emails with cryptic messages in the subject line, and sometimes he includes his message in the “To” line as well!

Subject: my cretcard is aviable gas bar ivrey place no proble your site no way ?

To: refunds@bmezine.com, wi@sympatico.ca, may@sympatico.ca, credt@sympatico.ca, card@sympatico.ca, is@sympatico.ca, refuse??????@sympatico.ca
Subject: Refund

Subject: a want to bi member my credet card is god wy aave no acess?????

Subject: i m asking to bi a member altthe help

Subject: you dond acpet my card wat do i douw

Subject: 1 day free as member for 1 yers

To: reborn@bmezine.com, 1@sympatico.ca, day@sympatico.ca, free@sympatico.ca, pass@sympatico.ca
Subject: (pas d'objet)

Subject: 1 day pass

Subject: avril may ?

Subject: 1 day free acss i love your sita

Subject: my card is god wy not for you

Subject: i am member dou yee bes

Subject: my pas word as no acc cast wy ?

Subject: i ave not verifier wit my cr card ih yor dit not get your fy y wil si dat you will bi pay mi orthographe is no good sorry iwill pay you wit intrest

Subject: i m a merber is tath wat you ave for nollo try your bes

Subject: wy don ave acess tou xxjivchard

Subject: i love your site your bes wood by nyce tank you

Subject: i wil lik mor
Subject: mor eunucs mor nullification now callery

Ack, kooky stuff! I've tried to communicate with him, but haven't really had any luck at all (big surprise, right?)… Let's finish it off today with an AOL-bashing classic:

From: Devilishjess***
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 01:26:30 EDT
Subject: (no subject)

HEY WHATS UP I WANNA BE COME A MEMBER OF BMEZINE BUT I ODNT KNOW HOW THIS IS THE WEBSITE EVERY I WANNA TALK OT PEOPLE ON HERE AND STUFF HOW DO I DO OKAY WELL ILL LET U GO OKAY BYE

(**<3**JeSsIy*

Wow Shannon, that's really annoying! What is it, 1997 on Geocities? Retroweb is NOT cool!

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