We’re not affiliated with companies named Marketworks or VIA Networks. And that’s definitely not our phone number.

I’ll be happy to get to the bottom of this if you can help me by identifying where these posts are coming from and who is sending them in.

thanks and best regards,

Adam Harrell
President, NeboWeb

Usenet jumped the shark. So did Google. So did everything else.

It’s true. Sad to say.

Penguins and Lemurs are our only hope. Look to them, my friend.

giovanni (TheAgencyBlog.com)

Adam, call them.

I’m sure if you have the time, you can waste hours of their time getting them to do free keyword analysis, explain their services etc..

Can’t do it, Ryan. They don’t give me their phone number. They just keep filling out my web design contact form (I’m gonna have to start collecting IPs from that).

FROM: “vianetworks” <linksbooster@gmail.com>
DATE: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 05:24:39 -0500
TO: <my email here>
SUBJECT: Link Request

vianetworks at web hosting has left the following
questions/comments/suggestions using the adamwebdesign.com comments form:

Dear Editor,

I have come across your website while browsing and find the website resource quite interesting and relevant to one of our business partner’s website. I would request you to please list the below mentioned Website under “Links” section (http://www.adamwebdesign.ca/links)

I’ll include some variations of our link details at the bottom of the email. Please chose whichever you like.

URL: http://www.vianetworks.net
Title: Windows Hosting
Description: Offering dedicated hosting : managed windows, linux, coldfusion dedicated web hosting and unmanaged windows, linux, coldfusion dedicated web hosting.

URL: http://www.vianetworks.net
Title: Reseller Hosting
Description: Offering dedicated hosting : managed windows, linux, coldfusion dedicated web hosting and unmanaged windows,linux, coldfusion dedicated web hosting.

URL: http://www.vianetworks.net
Title: Linux Dedicated Servers
Description: Offering dedicated hosting : managed windows, linux, coldfusion dedicated web hosting and unmanaged windows, linux, coldfusion dedicated web hosting.

I hope this is of interest to you and look forward to your response.

Best regards

vianetworks can be reached by telephone at 7844457744744, in addition to replying to this email.

They’ve also been “neboweb” and “marketworks” (both dot com) in the past.

And I don’t think that phone number is legit, although for some reason all three companies share it.

I’d like to get a bit OT and hope not be flamed (yes, I can confirm that “you haven’t really been flamed until you’ve been flamed by Usenet folks”, been there …) and say: If it turned out true what I today read about “GoogleBowling” at SEO Black Hat (I won’t link their probably illegal offer …), this may be a point when search engines and their fight against spam “jumps the shark” … I would really like to hear sumthing reliable from a qualified source, it’s really disturbing me to think this may be working.

“Dance Dance Revolution” is this game where you gotta dance like crazy with a machine, right? Now, I recently found a little video about dancing, which I find one of the nicest short videos I’ve ever seen. What a journey, “Dancing”:

http://www.ficka.de/pics/displayimage.php?album=3&pos=35

Enjoy!

In terms of Jump the shark that phrase came into my radar from ESPN’s bill simmons and as a long time internet surfer I would bet that Simmons had the biggest influence in making that phrase mainstream.

I’m sure if you have the time, you can waste hours of their time getting them to do free keyword analysis, explain their services etc..

Web Spam for what it is!

I hope I am not giving undue credit where it belongs in the wake of the current “consternation storm”:

http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=60756

from english-test.net:

“Definition of consternation (noun)
amazement or terror that causes confusion; shock; dismay; alarm

Examples of consternation
The look of consternation on the child’s face caused her father to panic.

The Time Magazine Interview sure didn’t sound like it was presented from a “panic” perspective.

Ken

Is there anything in the ToS of GMail (or any rule for that matter) that would disallow SEO companies from using GMail to promote their services? Because I keep getting a bunch of these from one particular email account and it’s really starting to get old.