Ya can’t spam people’s inboxes with “guess who’s coming” e-mails, and not expect some people to guess.

Site does look interesting though. I see they’re using phpBB – I’m in the process of considering it as a replacement to Lost Laowai’s current forum.

I like Ryan did not look into who was behind it, and in hindsight I rally should have. The honest truth was that it first came out, I thought it was from a different set of bloggers… and I emailed Chris to see if he had received the emails too. I traded 2-3 emails with the CTL email address… and then forwarded some of the responses to Chris as they were really fantastic responses.

When Ryan did the research I was a bit shocked, and sent Chris a short email to express the gig was up.

@ Dan – I agree we should not have an ear biter in the ring, and all I can say is that I wrote what I wrote above because I didn’t know it was Chris. In my mind, you, me, and Chris were all going to be targets of this… and we were all looking at a cyber ass kicking. Wasn’t making trying to make it a personal statement.

R

As for spamming – sorry, did you get an e-mail from me? Last I checked I still own the rights to post whatever the hell I want here and until it gets in your inbox unrequested, I’d rather not be accused of being involved in spamming.

In regards to any connection I have with Chris, DS , and Communist Tax Lawyer (or any tax law, or any law really) – other than the e-mail quoted in the post (which seems likely to have come from him) and an e-mail he sent after being “outed” to give me a better idea of what the site will be about, I’ve never had any communication with him.

Why if DS wanted this kept quiet did it not spend the extra few quid required to make the domain name anonymous? Are we really supposed to believe DS, Rich, and you did not know who was behind this all along. I feel that we are all being taken for a ride here in the name of spamming advertising.

I too got one of those emails and it took me ten seconds (like everyone else) to know the spam was coming from Dezan Shera.

With regard to the approach Chris took, he really had me going. I was emailing him on this, and he was playing back, and in hindsight it played well. More than anything else, the writing style and the cards were much more entertaining than 95% of what I have seen and I give him (and the group) he is working with a lot of credit.

I know he would have preferred to keep it anon for a couple of more weeks, while he built up some speed… but if it goes as he has laid out on his site, I think this will prove to be a pretty interesting site for the global jet set looking for information on markets that are really poorly covered.

Anyway, as with all blogs/ media, the proof will be in the pudding… and once out, the site will be open to the world for praise/ criticism.

Have a good weekend
R

@China-Matt: I’m guessing they don’t do many dealings with any capitalist farm animals.

Now that the cat is out of the bag though, I am guessing the project will die. Its too bad. I had sent 2-3 emails to the wizard (apparently Chris) to figure out who it was… and the emails were brilliant.

R