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Rapscallion · #17 12-10-2008, 09:15 AM

Reminds me of a guy who tried to set up a site mimicing mine. To give you an idea of how close this mimicing was, he'd bought the same skin, the forum setup was almost the same, and he had copied the site rules word for word, save for altering the site and admin names. He'd apparently found the slowest shared hosting he could find, and he wanted some sort of business deal with me. I never got the details, since I was too busy laughing, but his main offer to readers was to spam myspace with an award of $100 for the best poster that month. It ... really didn't work. He paid it out, but it didn't work.

Being a devious sort, I wandered over to Whois and got his details - in the UK, as am I, so I had his phone number. However, just to make a point, I sent him a birthday card with Scooby Doo on the front wishing him a happy 6th birthday, and wrote on the inside that it was from all the friends he wanted to have at *mysite*.com. Please don't think I'm evil for this - I spent a little extra and got him the one with the badge on it. I'm generous.

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