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07:21 am: Advice for spammers
When trying to tempt random people to open the spam you send out by suggesting that you might be a long-lost friend, use "Mary" or "Jennifer" or "David" as the fake name, not "Potteiger F. Crysta".

Potteiger F. Crysta wouldn't even be a good name for a Groucho Marx character. Dude.

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From:[info]countesslovlace
Date:June 2nd, 2009 03:08 pm (UTC)
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Hahahaha ha!

Maybe Crysta was supposed to be the first name but their spaminator software screwed up.
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From:[info]kate_schaefer
Date:June 2nd, 2009 07:42 pm (UTC)
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I like the idea and the name of spaminator software. I hate the reality.

I visualize the spammers running their spaminator software, generating all these stupid emails coming from fictional people. And then I visualize the authors of the spaminator software, smoking a little dope, and saying to each other, "Hey, let's make up some bogus first names! Those spammers in Nigeria won't know the difference, and who are they going to complain to? The Better Business Bureau?" For the next three weeks, they can make each other collapse laughing just by saying, "B-B-B!"
From:[info]fringefaan
Date:June 2nd, 2009 03:10 pm (UTC)
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I once knew a Potteiger G. Crysta.
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From:[info]kate_schaefer
Date:June 2nd, 2009 07:42 pm (UTC)
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Randy, your pants are so completely on fire.
From:[info]fringefaan
Date:June 2nd, 2009 08:08 pm (UTC)
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And here I thought it was just the hot weather.
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From:[info]holyoutlaw
Date:June 2nd, 2009 05:04 pm (UTC)
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I played a piano duet in first grade with Michaelina Tessalina. The only reason I remember it is because my mother thought the name so amusing.

(Just thought to google it -- no results. Bumma!)
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From:[info]kate_schaefer
Date:June 2nd, 2009 07:47 pm (UTC)
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I once typed a data record with the name "Danvial Gilliam." I found the name simultaneously mellifluous and unbelievable, and I've remembered it ever since. I didn't know if the name belonged to a man or a woman, and I don't remember anything about the temp job in which I typed that name.

(Googled it, and found that he died rather young in 1989.)
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From:[info]lasirenadolce
Date:June 3rd, 2009 03:38 am (UTC)
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Unrelated, except that it's about email... did you receive my message from a couple of days ago?
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From:[info]kate_schaefer
Date:June 3rd, 2009 04:15 am (UTC)
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I did, and meant to answer right away. I'm sorry; I was preoccupied on Monday, and then forgot. Let me switch over to another method of communication.
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From:[info]lasirenadolce
Date:June 3rd, 2009 04:59 am (UTC)
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No rush! I was afraid I would forget if I didn't nudge you ;) Talk to you soon.
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From:[info]bedii
Date:June 3rd, 2009 05:05 am (UTC)
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I don't know. Maybe a little more believable than A. Pismo Clam, maybe a little less than Mahatma Kane Jeeves...
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From:[info]kate_schaefer
Date:June 3rd, 2009 03:05 pm (UTC)
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I must admit that you're precisely right in positioning Potteiger F. Crysta between A. Pismo Clam and Mahatma Kane Jeeves in believability.

Waldorf T. Beagle, anyone?
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From:[info]bedii
Date:June 4th, 2009 05:43 am (UTC)
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Only if Hugo Z. Hackenbush is unavailable.
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From:[info]theclownhunt
Date:June 3rd, 2009 04:41 pm (UTC)
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How about Venus Macbeth?
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From:[info]kate_schaefer
Date:June 4th, 2009 04:38 am (UTC)
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As a name for a character played by Groucho? No. As a spammer name? Better than Potteiger F. Crysta, by a long shot.
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From:[info]theclownhunt
Date:June 4th, 2009 01:30 pm (UTC)
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She was one of my advisees at UCLA.
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From:[info]kate_schaefer
Date:June 4th, 2009 03:29 pm (UTC)
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Wow. Real life trumps fiction once again.

I knew a woman named Elizabeth Estrada, which is probably a fairly common name. All women named Elizabeth Estrada should be nicknamed "Beth" or "Eliza" or "Mabel", not "Liz."
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From:[info]theclownhunt
Date:June 4th, 2009 05:13 pm (UTC)
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LOL!
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From:[info]lcohen
Date:June 5th, 2009 02:59 pm (UTC)
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oh, that's great!
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