Posted by Baron Greenback [65.186.201.54 - dsl-65-186-201-54.telocity.com] on 26 May 2002 at 01.15.27 ZuluTime:

In Reply to: My turn to play the WTF e-mail game posted by Jurassosaurus on 24 May 2002 at 04.01.38 ZuluTime:

... um... well, as far as I know you're the only one Monty Hall decided to e-mail... although, there are a couple of... inconsistincies I found a bit troubling...

For one thing, Internet seer have provided this wonderful link to getting more information about this site...
     http://scclick.internetseer.com/sitecheck/clickthrough.jsp?I5s57f5g5f5h5h5i5d53M5pQUW5ae6uWzNW6tWPPx5vwRzxLIXx5dHRT52W5sMPTN5n5e5bMPVHIXI5dHRT5b6066655a636tP_5b5f5f5c5e5c5c5k5e5d5i5h5aXTCC55x5q5h=e3

But wait... Internet Seer have provided THIS wonderful link to learning more about their site...

http://www.internetseer.com/ep/setoc?NR5p764lad5aP5q5eMNNV5cSHVMU5bGxy=e3

Confused? That makes two of us. What's more, both links end up at completely different web pages that accomplish the same goal, and don't link to eachother...

Then there's this...
     "There is no need to cancel because InternetSeer will never contact youagain at this email address"
     and
     "As stated above, there is no need to cancel since YOU WILL NEVER becontacted again"

These. of course, beg the question of how and why they contacted you in the first place; on one side, if you actually authorized this service, then they didn't need to send you an e-mail advertising their site, and it certainly didn't need to claim that this is the only time it'll actually work for you, period, ever. Of course, if you didn't actually authorize it in the first place, as seems to be the case, then they can't possibly gaurentee they won't contact you again and keep a straight face. Anyway, for the sake of argument let's allow for the parodox to be solved using multiple reality theory, as all lazy quantum physicists are doing nowadays. So let's assume that in another reality, you signed up for the service to be mailed to you, but it changed dimensions halfway through and ended up being re-routed to the...um...some swamp gas reflected off of venus... and... resteraunt at the end of the universe... stuff... nevermind.

Okay, let's just assume for the sake of argument that I don't trust these people. I'd like to put my name on an unsubscribe subscription unsubscription list to make sure that they don't contact me to tell me that they won't be contacting me again again. Let's just click their handy unsubscribe link,

http://scclick.internetseer.com/sitecheck/cancel.jsp?QXsU7w6uWzNW6tWPPx5vwRzxLIXx5dHRT.e3...

Not to be confused with this service, that sends an e-mail to other addresses letting you know that they needed to contact you to let you know that you can recieve further e-mails letting you know that we had to contact you this one time only to let you know that a website is having problems and won't be contacting you in the future in the future, unless you don't want to be contacted with the non-contact information in the future, in which case a new link will be provided in a new e-mail to the address you would like not to be contacted at to be contacted at to not be contacted at, as well as a link allowing you to be contacted with information that you will only be contacted this once and will not be contacted again, with the option to be contacted with an e-mail saying they will not contact you again. Zen masters of non-contact contacting need not click the link, but merely will the link to be clicked by not clicking.

http://scclick.internetseer.com/sitecheck/cancelemails.jsp