As my first completion was flagged for not being spam, I decided to redo this task. I invented an internet card company, Happy Smiley Cards. The first action I took was to design a simple logo.

Next, I composed an e-mail trying to persuade people to apply for a free card and ask for payment options. I did not expect this to happen, so I also added the 'if you wish to be removed from our mailing list' bit.

I received one reply to this. Gen-Nam wrote to my own e-mail account asking 'Did you think you could spam me?'.
Unfortunately I had made the mistake of mentioning to him a few weeks ago that I was going to redo this task. He also said that the logo was rubbish and the style of writing was like me.
Because he is a lot better at using Photoshop, I recruited him as my artist. He designed this far more professional-looking logo in time for the second e-mail:

I then sent the second e-mail, advertising a competition:

I realised after sending this that I had forgotten to put the e-mail addresses in the bcc line. I thought this would be a big mistake and reveal who I actually was, so I tried to cover my back with the following e-mail. It also helped that I sent the e-mail to myself as well.

I then received a reply from Daniel Palmer, who knows how spam works. He is either referring to me in the second paragraph or he is bluffing. If he did know that all the people were on my contacts list, I'm lucky he didn't take his thinking one step further and realise it was me sending them.

It's reasurring to see that none of our friends are stupid enough to reply to messages like these.