Just a moment ago I received the following IM:

Subject: you're welcome (Sent 9/21 12:17)
Instant Message from skoeter: I noticed your work on Renderosity and wondered if you want to join a new artists community. A monthly challenge(open for all graphic software), image galleries, forums, downloads, links and reviews. Before you submit anything read the main page. No registration requiered to view, only to participate ;0) This months challenge is "household objects" and it's free for all software 2D and 3D. Deadline 30-09-04

Hope to see you soon at Art for all, all for art

Skoeter
http://art4all-all4art.com

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I personally do not quite like these IMs, especially since I've had this one before through E-Mail as well.
And I think you as well do not like it as well, since they try to steal your members.

Regards,
Filip H.F. "FiXato" Slagter

Message edited on: 09/21/2004 12:46 The IM is still in my inbox

Message edited on: 09/21/2004 12:46

This is a violation of the TOS and this member has been issued a warning. Thanks for the heads up. Tommy

I also found the e-mail I received in the past: ---- From - Thu Aug 26 18:18:01 2004 Received: (qmail 3790 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2004 13:55:09 -0000 Received: from host1.bondware.com (66.18.106.201) Message-Id: 200404131355.i3DDtBtN002358@host1.bondware.com X-Sender: art4all@skoeter.com X-Mailer: EdgeNet EASE 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:55:11 -060 From: art4all@skoeter.com Return-Path: Subject: your artwork I noticed your work on renderosity and wondered if you want to display some of your images/freestuff on my site too. It now has over 3500 pages and more then 300 artists display their images and free items. If you wanna post just follow the site instructions........the site has no upload system and the submit buttons run your e-mail program. No registration requiered to view, only to participate ;0) Hope to hear from you soon, Skoeter Art for all, all for art http://www.skoeter.com -------- Additional headers are available if requested. Note this e-mail was receive quite a couple of months ago.

I've gotten that same IM twice and the email twice myself so has my wife, I found it annoying also.

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I've gotten that message a couple of times. The first time I wasn't too upset, but the second time was annoying... ;-) bonni

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i've gotten one a while ago, but nothing recently.

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