Journalist seeks online racers

I'm the gaming columnist for the Boston Globe, and I'd like to interview people who do online auto racing, specifically NASCAR. I'd want to include your name, age, occupation and the community where you live. This is for real; check out the links below for other stuff I've written. Interested? Please contact me ASAP. Thanks! -- Hiawatha Bray Technology Reporter Boston Globe P.O. Box 2378 135 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, MA 02107 USA 617-929-3119 voice 617-929-3183 fax [email hidden] [email hidden] Blog: www.monitortan.com Recent articles: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/bray

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> I'm the gaming columnist for the Boston Globe, and I'd like to > interview people who do online auto racing, specifically NASCAR. I'd > want to include your name, age, occupation and the community where you > live. > > This is for real; check out the links below for other stuff I've > written. > > Interested? Please contact me ASAP. Thanks! > > -- > Hiawatha Bray > Technology Reporter > Boston Globe > P.O. Box 2378 > 135 Morrissey Blvd. > Boston, MA 02107 USA > 617-929-3119 voice > 617-929-3183 fax > [email hidden] > [email hidden] > Blog: www.monitortan.com > Recent articles: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/bray > >

The ultimate in SPAM tip-offs "This is for real"

Well its for real. Spam or not. "Douglas BISHOP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:d5gVb.662$[email hidden]...

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> <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > I'm the gaming columnist for the Boston Globe, and I'd like to > > interview people who do online auto racing, specifically NASCAR. I'd > > want to include your name, age, occupation and the community where you > > live. > > > > This is for real; check out the links below for other stuff I've > > written. > > > > Interested? Please contact me ASAP. Thanks! > > > > -- > > Hiawatha Bray > > Technology Reporter > > Boston Globe > > P.O. Box 2378 > > 135 Morrissey Blvd. > > Boston, MA 02107 USA > > 617-929-3119 voice > > 617-929-3183 fax > > [email hidden] > > [email hidden] > > Blog: www.monitortan.com > > Recent articles: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/bray > > > > > The ultimate in SPAM tip-offs "This is for real" > > >

[email hidden] wrote: > I'm the gaming columnist for the Boston Globe, and I'd like to > interview people who do online auto racing, specifically NASCAR. I'd > want to include your name, age, occupation and the community where you > live. I'm a journalist, don't do gaming in general but nevertheless simrace my virtual butt off ;) With GPLrank as indicator, and GPL as the benchmark, what more is there to know? NASCAR? Tried it, just doesn't compare, sorry ;) > This is for real; check out the links below for other stuff I've > written. Yes, Mr. Bray is for real. I remember he's written several articles concering the Mac (for which Nascar Racing 2003 is out as well, BTW). Regards, Rudy (GPLRank -21)

> I'm the *** columnist for the Boston Globe, and I'd like to > interview people who do online auto racing, specifically NASCAR. I'd > want to include your name, age, occupation and the community where you > live. I'm a journalist, don't do *** in general but nevertheless simrace my virtual ***off ;) With GPLrank as indicator, and GPL as the benchmark, what more is there to know? NASCAR? Tried it, just doesn't compare, sorry ;) Yes, Mr. Bray is for real. I remember he's written several articles concering the Mac (for which Nascar Racing 2003 is out as well, BTW). Regards, Rudy (GPLRank -21)

"Ruud Dingemans" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:c04l91$9ih$[email hidden]... > [email hidden] wrote: ><snip> > > With GPLrank as indicator, and GPL as the benchmark, what more is there > to know? NASCAR? Tried it, just doesn't compare, sorry ;) ><snip> Them's fightin words son!! :-D Sean

He should head over to the RASCAR Forum. http://forum.racesimcentral.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=142 ^^^^^^^^^ That's a shameless plug. -- Richard "ZZ" Busch Member: Screamers Racing League OAO CORS MARA TransAm RASCAR GPL Rank + 17.415 MoGPL Rank + 318.586 N2002 Rank + 7.695 TransAm Rank ??

In article <d5gVb.662$[email hidden]>, "Douglas BISHOP" <[email hidden]> writes: >The ultimate in SPAM tip-offs "This is for real" SPAM? I didn't see him trying to sell anything... Eldred -- http://www.umich.edu/~epickett Screamers League IICC League GPLRank -6.0 MoGPL rank +267.80 Ch.Rank +52.58 MoC +741.71 Hist. +82.34 MoH:na N2k3 rank:in progress Slayer Spektera lvl 65 assassin Slayer Hendryx lvl 30 barbarian US East

He takes your e-mail address and sends you spam, at least that's my view on the whole "spam" issue. "EldredP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > In article <d5gVb.662$[email hidden]>, "DouglasBISHOP"

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> <[email hidden]> writes: > > >The ultimate in SPAM tip-offs "This is for real" > > SPAM? I didn't see him trying to sell anything... > > Eldred > -- > http://www.umich.edu/~epickett > Screamers League > IICC League > GPLRank -6.0 MoGPL rank +267.80 > Ch.Rank +52.58 MoC +741.71 > Hist. +82.34 MoH:na > N2k3 rank:in progress > Slayer Spektera lvl 65 assassin > Slayer Hendryx lvl 30 barbarian > US East

Stuart Becktell wrote: > He takes your e-mail address and sends you spam, > at least that's my view on the whole "spam" issue. I think, if someone were after email addresses for spamming purposes, he wouldn't come to a sleepy little group like this one, where at best he can expect to collect a few dozen addresses anyway, and with an offer that makes it this uninteresting to reply (who'd want to appear quoted in some local newspaper with a three liner like "Mr. X from Y, working as Z, says '...I race online because my TV is broken...'" while Mr. Y from W says 'yadda yadda yadda'" and then spend so much time to make it sound credible (with all the background info, phone no's etc.) Spammers work in quantities where they expect 1 return from 1000 messages sent out. If he were to collect his addresses in such a painstaking way, he wouldn't be making any money :) Mr. Bray's request was an honest one I think. Just not one many will bother to reply to I guess (I haven't, for the above mentioned reason), but I wish him luck with it. It's good to see our hobby in the press. Achim

>> <[email hidden]> writes: > >> The ultimate in SPAM tip-offs "This is for real" > > [email hidden] (EldredP) wrote: > SPAM? I didn't see him trying to sell anything... The man is completely legitimate. Anyone can look at the Boston Globe website for his articles.