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Mahir Kisses Gettingit.com

Posted Jan 5, 2003

I just received an e-mail from Mahir "I KISS YOU" Cagri, in response to a pitch that former Gettingit.com editor Mat Honan sent to him on December 8, 1999! Better late than never, right? He must have a huge backlog of mail... Here's the e-mail:

From: "Mahir" <mahir@ikissyou.org>
To: "Mat Honan"
Subject: Hii
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 00:10:41 +0200

Hii ,I kisss uuu !!!
How are you ?
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Love & Share for Peace
www.ikissyou.org
with my love
Who can Know may be we can meet this year!!I go many country my fans home and see around take pic together add my site,who invite me and send ticket.. I join free all kids-green-animal-poor -love -peace organizations too all world .I go many schools for lecture about my life and internet

2 Comments (Add Yours)

Feb 2, 2004
2:47 PM  
اسلام اردو wrote:

crazyturk.com redirects to this page.


Feb 16, 2004
1:08 PM  
Andy Baio wrote:

Very strange. The domain is owned by a guy named Joseph Ciprut, presumably a Mahir fan.


 

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