“Many thanks for your reading this email,” wrote a responder who identified themselves as Huang Kiaibo and claimed to represent a company that could meet all my golf-related needs. “We are a reliable manufacturer with good product quality and satisfied services,” he insisted.
My Sedalia Democrat e-mail just sits out there in the open and you can probably guess that I get my fair share of spam. But I just can’t buy shoddy merchandise from someone who clearly hasn’t read any of my columns. Addressing your electronic message as though “tmcmullen” is my single word name, like Madonna, doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence.
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