Greetings fellow SFZerians and SFZeroites:

The following is my humble completion of this task, not well thought out, but complete. I have taken consideration of the task instructions and followed them to the letter, or at least tried to. Original? Yes. Believable? You can be the judge of that. It is no doubt that it was of personal interest, and none can deny that my identity has not been revealed. And so for your approval and (be/)amusement, here is the full correspondence.

Important information for all Flash developers in Norfolk around the Norwich area

Sent to alternateaccount@frozenhaddock.co.uk on Sep 30, 2008, 8:43 PM

You are receiving this message because you have shown an interest in
game development and applied to the corresponding newsletter. To
unsubscribe, reply to this message with at least 100 words in the body.

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Re: Important information for all Flash developers in Norfolk around the Norwich area
alternateaccount@frozenhaddock.co.uk sent it to me on Oct 1, 2008, 4:44 PM

Hi there SFZerian,

Chose your dropped in keywords with greater care, several of these are things I've only ever been linked to via SFZero.

Also, 'To unsubscribe, reply to this message with at least 100 words in
the body.', really? Make sure to choose someone who wasn't around to
see the personalised spam task before!

I suppose this -is- a reply, but hey, figured you out.

Now, who sent it I wonder?

...Bryce?

-Tom

Sent to alternateaccount@frozenhaddock.co.uk on Oct 1, 2008, 6:49 PM
Figured me out, eh?
INSTRUCTIONS: Create a dummy email account that has an
address name that cannot be recognized as you. Use this account to
create and send an original and believable Spam message to another
player or someone else that you know. Make the message of personal
interest to the recipient without revealing your identity. Your goal is
to get a reply from the recipient without them realizing that you are
the sender of the message. Continue sending messages until you achieve
your goal.

If SF0 is about multiple interpretations, then I think I've won. Well played Tom, but not...well...played enough!


Although,
in all fairness, SF0 is heavily indexed by Google. A real spammer would
probably use a search bot, not unlike Google's, to say, find all
occurrences of your email and name. Since your website is also indexed
by Google, I'd venture to say you might not have a robots.txt
exclusion, or maybe you just submitted a sitemap with all this in mind.
I know I did, and I check Webmaster compulsively. My point, anyway, is
that although a few keywords were tied to SF0, there is no huge reason
a spammer couldn't find this stuff.

And finally, a big player
like you has more information out there, and is generally likely to
have a funnier reply. I mean, c'mon, who wouldn't see the personalised
spam task? The new era started a week ago.

Now, Mister
Smarty-pants, you have a whole new body of evidence to logic my
identity with. That must be a huge mistake on my part, but I always was
overconfident.

Sincerely Yours,
Not Bryce

alternateaccount@frozenhaddock.co.uk sent it to me on Oct 1, 2008, 7:29 PM

Evenin' NotBryce,

I'll return to this when it makes more sense to me tomorrow morning.
And just to be sure I don't throw the entire thing off course with my
investigations (The Skypechat will be involved, they're much better at
this sort of thing than me), have you sent out any similar emails to
other players?

I'd hate to reveal the task.

-Tom

Sent to alternateaccount@frozenhaddock.co.uk on Oct 1, 2008, 10:08 PM

 Nay, I should say.  Do you plan on disclosing this email before I
complete the task? Mixed feelings on that, but go ahead anyway.  I'm
reasonably confident that no one will figure it out.

Yours,
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
(Which is to say, Not Bryce.)

alternateaccount@frozenhaddock.co.uk sent it to me on Oct 2, 2008, 1:35 PM

Notbryce,

I can refrain from disclosing the entire mail, if that's not to your liking.

Also, I'm going to start including at least one guess each mail, Garnett?

-Tom

Sent to alternateaccount@frozenhaddock.co.uk on Oct 2, 2008, 9:51 PM

Seems reasonable.  I'd like to see what the group can figure. There
should be a deadline though, a ticking clock. Say, you have until
Wednesday, unless I forget.  In exchange, you could unleash the full
batch of emails, if you want.

-Not Garnett

Sent to alternateaccount@frozenhaddock.co.uk on Oct 7, 2008, 5:01 PM

Hello. I'm not sure if you got the last email I sent you, it had a
ticking clock. I don't know if or how you received it, but I hope it
wasn't poorly.  In any case, I plan to submit the completion on
Wednesday.  I would tell you when, but then I'd have to disclose my
timezone.  I will tell you that right now it is Tuesday.

Did you
converse with your groups? Figure out who I am yet?  Or did you just
forget about this?  I have to admit that my job has been pretty easy,
since you replied to my first mailing.  Maybe spend fifteen minutes a
week writing messages.

Good Luck,
SFZeroite

alternateaccount@frozenhaddock.co.uk sent it to me on Oct 7, 2008, 5:39 PM

Unfortunately, meatspace life has intervened and prevented me from
persuing this as much as I'd've liked to... Illness and work deadlines
are a fun combination.

Just a warning, your praxis will either form an argument over whether
the task was completed correctly or not (Technicality that it is) or
it'll be one of those no-vote/no-flag stalemates. It's an interesting
idea to keep correspondence up after the task has been picked up on
though.

Seeing as this will most likely be my last email before the praxis, I'd better include another guess hadn't I?

I'll go with... Tac? Waldo? The timezone and writing style would fit... perhaps it's just me being tired!

Failing that, you've kept your identity secret and that's a completion by me, good luck with your praxis.

-Tom


The account I opened for this task was c_sharp_metalhead at inbox.com.(Which I reveal against my better judgment.) The name I used for this account was Dr. Master Shake, ensuring the smiling Asian chick will always greet me with, "Hello, Master!"

And now I will reveal my identity: My name is Kilroy.

To which I mean, I am V.