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Back on 03/02/06, I received the following email message:

Dear fellow herpers ,

radical reptile is proud to announce the opening of there new forums . to
join all you got to do is go to http://radicalreptiles.top-site-
list.com/forum.html?sid=d36af4f92a58926b8b329f413f4f76d5 to sign up . we are
currently looking for moderators so if you want to be one reply to this e-
mail . also dont for get we have a topsite auto rank system . to join that go
to http://www.radicalreptiletopsites.co.nr

Thank you for taking the time to read this e-mail,

Kenny Hogrefe
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Basically, I ignored it, as I didn't really have any reason to go check out that site.

Well, the next day I got the following email from someone else:

----- Original Message -----
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 4:31 PM
Subject: Fauna Topsites


Hi Mr. Zukowski,
I am writing to you in reguard to the fauna topsites. I have lost my password and can't modify my site. My ID# is 1467, http://pjcreptiles.com. Could you please send me another password so I could edit if I need to? I promise I will have my wife write it down this time. Also, I received an E-Mail from Kenny Hogrefe owner of Radical Reptiles forums to join his site and maybe monitor some forums for him. I asked him where he got our E-Mail address from and he said from you and it was ok because he knew you and you were willing to help him get his site started. Is this so? If it is true that is quite alright but if you didnt I thought maybe you should know what people are saying. Thank you for your time.
Jay & PJ
~*PJCReptiles*~
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Well, I felt something was definitely wrong here, because as best I can recall, I have NOT offered him any help in any way with his forum, especially by providing email addresses of any members of any of my sites. So I sent him the following email asking for an explanation:

From: "serpenco" <[email protected]>
To: "Kenny Hogrefe" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: Radical Reptile


Kenny,

I just received a rather disturbing email from someone:

> Hi Mr. Zukowski,
> I am writing to you in reguard to the fauna topsites. I have lost my
> password and can't modify my site. My ID# is 1467, http://pjcreptiles.com.
> Could you please send me another password so I could edit if I need to? I
> promise I will have my wife write it down this time. Also, I received an
> E-Mail from Kenny Hogrefe owner of Radical Reptiles forums to join his site
> and maybe monitor some forums for him. I asked him where he got our E-Mail
> address from and he said from you and it was ok because he knew you and you
> were willing to help him get his site started. Is this so? If it is true
> that is quite alright but if you didnt I thought maybe you should know what
> people are saying. Thank you for your time.
> Jay & PJ
> ~*PJCReptiles*~
>
How is it you are claiming you got someone's email address from me when this is patently untrue? I am quite disturbed that you would make that claim to someone.

I am requesting a reply to this query.

Thanks.

Rich Zuchowski
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To date, there has not been a reply to the above email.

I received a further email from Jay & PJ apparently verifying their correspondence:

----- Original Message -----
From: [email protected]
To: serpenco
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: Fauna Topsites


Hi Mr. Zukowski,
Sorry to bother you again, but i thought you might like the correspondence between myself and Kenny Hogrefe. These are all placed in order received by me or replied by me. The first one is from an E-mail I received and the rest were done through private messages from his site. http://www.radicalreptiles.top-site-list.com .
#1
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 18:17:08 -0700
From: "Kenny Hogrefe" <[email protected]>
Subject: Radical Reptile

Dear fellow herpers ,

radical reptile is proud to announce the opening of there new
forums . to
join all you got to do is go to http://radicalreptiles.top-site-
list.com/forum.html?sid=d36af4f92a58926b8b329f413f4f76d5 to sign up .
we are
currently looking for moderators so if you want to be one reply to this
e-
mail . also don't for get we have a topsite auto rank system . to join
that go
to http://www.radicalreptiletopsites.co.nr

Thank you for taking the time to read this e-mail,

Kenny Hogrefe
#2 (Private message from his site)

Inbox :: Message
From: roaches42993
To: PJCReptiles
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:48 pm
Subject: moderator
hello,

I was wondering if you would like to be a moderator for a couple of forums of your choice . If so respond to this e-mail and tell me what forums you want to moderate .

Thank you

Kenny Hogrefe


#3 (My reply in private message)
Sent :: Message
From: PJCReptiles
To: roaches42993
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 4:20 am
Subject: Re: moderator
Hi Kenny,
Thank you for inviting us to join your forums site. How did you get our name to ask us to join, if you don't mind me asking? Can you please tell me what we would have to do in order to moderate a couple forums?
Meaning how long everyday and what it would consist of. I work everyday but my wife is home. We might be able to help you out. Please E-Mail us to let us know. We maybe would think of maybe the snake forum and the photo forum.
Thank You,
Jay & PJ
~*PJCReptiles*~

#4 (his reply)


Inbox :: Message
From: roaches42993
To: PJCReptiles
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 7:12 am
Subject: Re: moderator
dear jay and pj ,

We got your e-mail through fauna topsites (we know the owner and he said he would help us out ) . All you got to do when moderating a forum is check the forum (yours would be photos and snakes ) at least once a day . Make sure the topic is put in the right forum and nothing offensive is put there . If you have any more questions just pm me .


Kenny Hogrefe

P.s. I am currently working on the chat room so that should be up soon


<end of correspondence>
Sorry this is so long but I thought you might like to know.
Thank you for your time,
Jay & PJ
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Again, I do not know Kenny Hogrefe, nor have I granted him any such permission to use emails in any fashion from FaunaTopSites.com

This is being posted in case anyone else has been told that I have given this person access to private records containing email addresses to be used in the manner he did to contact people about his site.

It is just absolutely NOT true at all.
 
Mr. Rich Z ,

First off the reason I never recived your e-mai is because [email protected] does not exest . My e-mail address is [email protected] occationally I will send out e-mails from "[email protected]" <[email protected]> .

Secondly I have no record of sending a e-mail to PJCreptiles . however I had have warnings from several people that giving out my real e-mail ([email protected]) which I did on the first 100 or so people I invited was not good because according to them people can make there e-mail so its like "[email protected]"<[email protected]> apperntally someone has done that .

I am sorry for any inconvience this may have caused and anything I can do to correct it I will be more then willing to do .


Kenny Hogrefe

p.s. also please note I have posted copys of this message on radical reptiles and emailed to you
 
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