Unhelpful

Fan mail…

Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 00:22:33 PDT
From: Lawrence _____ (_____@hotmail.com)
To: gimps@EEF.r33t.org
Subject: Important Request.

Dear r33t.org staff member,

I have taken a liking to r33t.org. And might like to purchase it. I am willing to pay a figure that you name something within the 4 digit area.

I am very serious, I am the webmaster of n33t.net, and I feal that your site would make an excellent addition to my collection.

You will still run it, but I would like to own it. I want to be able to freely change the pages, and I would like to talk soon to whoever might be incharge of this.

Please do not post this on your site, as some loony bin attempting to be a lamer. Or whatever bullshit might come from this. I have the money, and I am attempting to make a business deal.

Thank you,
_____ (Justin Com)

Serious business inquiries aren’t sent via hotmail accounts. Serious business inquiries about purchasing existing content aren’t sent by people who have their domains hosted by free webspace providers.

However, it is somewhat enticing… After all, it would free Seros from maintaining all those pesky user accounts on r33t.org since we’d be moving from a real live server to the ass-end of virtualave’s webspace. What an improvement that would be!

I suppose if we did make such a move, we’d have to change the 1917 theme to something that looked more … “capitalist”.

But in the end, remember this: $19.95 is four digits. When all was said and done, we went out for pizza instead and fantasized what we’d do if we sold r33t and had enough money from the deal to get five toppings instead of three.