travu2
The Fly
I still really want to know who it was that sent me those emails through the "crush" webistes.
I posted something about this in the lemonade stand a while ago. Basically, someone just used 2 services, crushlink.com and hugecrush.com, to anonymously let me know they have a crush on me. In that other post, I said I wasn't going to use the sites to figure out who it was. Well, the pressure was too great
so I tried to figure out who it was.
With crushlink.com, I had to enter the email addresses of the people who I thought it might be in order to get clues. I had to enter 3 addresses for the first clue and then 5 addresses for every clue after that. I know exactly 0 addresses of people who I thought it might be. Also, whatever addresses you enter will also get an email saying that someone has a crush on them, so I decided to just create about 18 email addresses of my own and use those. I got some clues, but they're just things like how many letters are in the person's first name.
After the 3rd clue, I got to a point where I had to fill out this form from one of the company's sponsors in order to get another clue. I did it, but then it wouldn't let me go any further. I tried it a second time with the same result, so that was a dead end.
With hugecrush.com, you can send in $5.00 and they tell you who the crush is. It turns out you also have to enter 2 email addresses. So I entered 2 of the email addresses I had created, and then I sent them five bucks. It then told me my crush was one of the email addresses I had just entered! One of my own addresses that I had recently created! I sent them an email explaining what happened and asking if I could get a refund, but I have never received a response.
Since people receive an email even if they are just a guess from someone else, I suppose that could be what happened here; someone received one of these emails and then entered my address as a guess. I don't think that's very likely though, because I got these emails from 2 different websites within a short period of time, and I don't interact with people online nearly often enough for anyone to think that I have a crush on them.
Anyway, if that person is reading this I would really like to know who you are.
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"Sweetheart, you're so cruel."
[This message has been edited by travu2 (edited 11-17-2001).]
[This message has been edited by travu2 (edited 11-17-2001).]
I posted something about this in the lemonade stand a while ago. Basically, someone just used 2 services, crushlink.com and hugecrush.com, to anonymously let me know they have a crush on me. In that other post, I said I wasn't going to use the sites to figure out who it was. Well, the pressure was too great
With crushlink.com, I had to enter the email addresses of the people who I thought it might be in order to get clues. I had to enter 3 addresses for the first clue and then 5 addresses for every clue after that. I know exactly 0 addresses of people who I thought it might be. Also, whatever addresses you enter will also get an email saying that someone has a crush on them, so I decided to just create about 18 email addresses of my own and use those. I got some clues, but they're just things like how many letters are in the person's first name.
After the 3rd clue, I got to a point where I had to fill out this form from one of the company's sponsors in order to get another clue. I did it, but then it wouldn't let me go any further. I tried it a second time with the same result, so that was a dead end.
With hugecrush.com, you can send in $5.00 and they tell you who the crush is. It turns out you also have to enter 2 email addresses. So I entered 2 of the email addresses I had created, and then I sent them five bucks. It then told me my crush was one of the email addresses I had just entered! One of my own addresses that I had recently created! I sent them an email explaining what happened and asking if I could get a refund, but I have never received a response.
Since people receive an email even if they are just a guess from someone else, I suppose that could be what happened here; someone received one of these emails and then entered my address as a guess. I don't think that's very likely though, because I got these emails from 2 different websites within a short period of time, and I don't interact with people online nearly often enough for anyone to think that I have a crush on them.
Anyway, if that person is reading this I would really like to know who you are.
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"Sweetheart, you're so cruel."
[This message has been edited by travu2 (edited 11-17-2001).]
[This message has been edited by travu2 (edited 11-17-2001).]
