ads on my website?

[gusl]

I just got this email:

Dear Webmaster,

I'm Sara from Reach Network, an interactive media company. We run a
popular education resource site and feel that our site could be useful and
relevant to your visitors. I was impressed with optimizelife.com and we
would like to purchase advertising in the form of a short text advertisement on
an interior page. Please let me know if you are interested and we can
talk about rates and the advertising details.
Thanks so much for your consideration.

Sara Nolte
Reach Network
123 Lake St S Suite B-1
Kirkland, WA 98033

They don't seem like spammers, so I'm inclined to inquire, just for the experience. Also, a new Internet experience: this week, I sold my first book on Amazon.

Comments

[biellou.livejournal.com]

I got today the same mail. Only one difference is site url

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wirehead_/]

bet it's spam.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

It may be. But since they sent to an email address I never give away directly (but instead put on a PNG on my home page), it's likely that either a human read it off from the PNG, or they OCR'd it.

I should make a new address and only make it available through recaptcha... see if I ever get spam there.

[ealdent.livejournal.com]

I've gotten a similar request in the past, talked to the person and found it to be nearly spam. This person wanted to put permanent ads for some vacation site (generic net garbage, like networking marketing) on my most popular pages for a set cost. The benefit to you is some quick cash. The cost to you is linking to rubbish for all eternity with no recurring revenue no matter how popular you get. Needless to say, I rejected the offer.