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[B]Sent By:[/B] suspendedHatch
[B]Sent (Server Time):[/B] Apr/17/07 at 11:32am
Do you mind explaining to me how my link to a PURELY informational site can be construed as advertising?

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[B]Sent By:[/B] MorningZ
[B]Sent (Server Time):[/B] Apr/17/07 at 9:05am
in your "Free text":
author of Cause For Alarm: http://causeforalarm.thecarthing.com/version6/
in your signature:
link to website
and on top of that you don't even have an Integra! So i know you are not here for help for your car
So explain to me how your one and only post on this website, that low and behold is trying to generate traffic to your website, is [I][B]not[/B][/I] advertising?

if you would please direct me to any offending material on the site, I will gladly delete it.
Here is the title for the Integra you claim that I don't own: (scan of title)
Here is a picture of the same Integra: (datestamped pic of my Integra parked in front of my civic with plates visible)
Virtually all of the pics throughout the site are of the same Integra.
I spent a lot of time/effort making the website so I would hope that people would use the information. No profit is being generated. The only benefit is my own personal gratification. The server space is donated to me free of charge and I am in no way affiliated or even familiar with the people running the server. I don't have access to any record of the traffic the site generates, nor is there any advertisement or even contact info on the site or in my sig. In the post I made, I asked for "no pm's". It is my one and only post thus far (I just joined!) and the whole reason I re-joined the site, though I have been trolling it and other sites for several years now since before my original membership. If I am guilty of not needing any help for my car, I am sorry. I guess I am guilty of altruism.
For it to be advertisement, somebody would have to be making some kind of profit from it. I stopped doing side-jobs almost a year ago and have turned away many people since then, even changing my email address! If I ever decided to try and make a profit from it, I would gladly pay for advertising, and I would probably take down all the info because it would be in direct competition with myself.
Please consider this text taken from the intro of the site: "I'm not putting my contact info on this site, although I'm not hard to track down. I've had problems in the past with my emails and pm's being overwhelmed with inane comments and people begging me to do this for their car. I'm sorry but I don't do side jobs. I tried it, and it just became a huge hassle. I don't know anyone that is willing to do this stuff for you. And if you think about it, it's kind of insulting for you to ask. I spent a lot of time making this as easy as I possibly can. If it's not good enough for you, I'm sorry."

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Sent By: suspendedHatch
Sent (Server Time): Apr/19/07 at 8:44pm
No response then?
*note that this was two days later

i explained my actions as you asked and i stand by it..... not really sure what else you are looking for