A friend of mine who comments on this blog once in a while forwarded to me an email he received today. It was from a concern called InternetSeer which apparently had gleaned my friends’ email address from the comment logs:

On Mon Dec 15, 2003 at 10:08:30 PM EST we were unable to reach your website:
http://www.prairiepoint.net/journal/archives/000005.html
due to the following reason: Connection Refused

We discovered this error during our normal course of website content checking for one of our search engine clients.

They went on to offer to monitor my web site and notify me if it went down. As a matter of fact my website was down for a time yesterday evening. I know this because I was unable to get to it myself to post. So this much is true.

I am curious about this service though and just what they may be up to. It annoys me that email with references to my site is going out without my knowledge to people who have commented.