On Saturday I bought a song from iTunes by Drill Queen, one of whose members I know in real life.
On Monday a package from Amazon arrived for me, I didn’t remember ordering anything but thought that I might have done when I set up work as a delivery address (Amazon’s courier company is totally incapable of delivering to home). Today I checked the delivery note and discovered that someone else had bought it for me off my wishlist.
I didn’t recognise the name and so checked my Gmail archive to see if it was anyone who had ever spoken to me. It was, a little while ago he had sent me this e-mail:
Hi there, you responded to one of my messages on Usenet, full details here.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets/msg/…
I was wondering if you could please remove it from Google’s archives (you can do this by creating a Google Groups Account, looging in, finding the message and pressing remove).
I’m just not keen on having that URL on the Internet now that it’s used for something different.
Thank in advance,
Used for something different means not used for an escort site anymore. (I’d answered a technical question about the site coding not anything related to the content.) Anyway, today I sent back the message
Bribery worked.
Nice to know that after all these years of giving free advice on Usenet I’m finally getting some reward.