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- WiseWeasel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+70This is why His Noodly Appendage made the BCC field... Blind Carbon Copy makes sure the recipients don't see each other...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+65it happens to me a lot, someone needs to get a 'USE THE BCC YOU *****' campaign going.
- shrewduser, on 10/12/2007, -6/+51this happens all the time.....
- Skab, on 10/12/2007, -2/+45RAmen
- kendawg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21One word: eBay
- carpespasm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Phr33 C!@lis 4 yoo and 2,000,000 of your clos3st fr!3ndz!!!
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Minus the bandwidth costs, probably somewhere in the negative region?
- Ben - H2SO4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Not as bad as when that pharmaceutical company sent out the emails for people on anti-depressants with all addresses showing. Nice!
- envy860, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14I recently got a chain mail letter from someone to my private e-mail address (I only use it for important and personal correspondence) I was really upset, because not only was I on a CC list, it has been sent to tons of people because their addresses were shown in the body of the email (when you reply and it copies the entire email). I went through and got every email address associated with the email, and BCC'd them all a response how it was a scam, explained HOW it was a scam, to use BCC, and to never email me ***** like that again.
- tmcpheeters, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13These are the new leads. These are the Glengarry leads. To you, these are gold; you do not get these. Because to give them to you would be throwing them away.
You know why, mister? 'Cause you drove a Hyundai to get here tonight, I drove an eighty thousand dollar BMW. *That's* my name. - uberlord, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Well, If I really could get that kind of money, I think some other citizens will be happy to spend 30 seconds of their dinner time contributing to my cause.
TBH, I actually enjoy answering their questions and doing the surveys:
How often do you shop at Toys R' Us?
How often do YOU shop at toys r' us?
Do you buy any toys well shopping there?
Adult toys?
Are you going to take this seriously?
Are you saying that adult toys shouldn't be taken seriously?
Would you please answer the question!
Did you know that [insert random facts here] is the number one cause of Child Rape?
If you aren't going to take this seriously I'm going to have to hang up.
But don't you get paid by the minute? when you think about it, I'm really helping you!
*hangs up*
Awwww, it was just getting funny.... [Law and Order comes back on] Ohh! yeah!!! - insinuate, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11phew $20,000 for just a list of 1000 potential buyers emails. I don't think there are many more easier ways to get that rich that quick
- MyDocuments, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13i would forward that email for $20.
- TroubleInMind, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12hahaha! no, the glengarry leads are the good leads. the glengarry leads are for CLOSERS ONLY. the ones you don't want are the other ones.
- allenu, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12PUT THAT COFFEE DOWN!
Coffee is for closers. - slowth, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Closing. Always be closing, always be closing. Get out there! You got the prospects coming in. You think they came in to get out of the rain?
- missflibbles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Thing is, your university email is usually just your first and last name. All you'd need in order to get email addresses would be to check a directory that lists students' names.
- AZNL473ncy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7It looks like a mistake with someone switching the BCC and CC fields.
There will always be human error. Even I make errors sometimes, but this is unreasonable, they should be more professional, although they did make a public apology so it kind of softens their mistake. - TroubleInMind, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7without CC, there could be no Reply To All, which the accidental usage of has probably caused more premature career endings than the Enron scandal.
- Ramble, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Mmm...Pot Noodle.
Well, if His Noodly Appendage wants me to eat more, I shall endevour to!
(Note: Ramen = Pot Noodle in the UK) - wbrendel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The same thing happened at my university. Some student group's secretary put the email addresses of EVERY student and professor in the "To:" field instead of sending it to the generic "Students and Professors" forwarder.
- trogdor282, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Your teacher should visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_budget
- shattadeya, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5What would you think if you saw this story?
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I thought If i clicked it i would piss off that many people. That would have been funny. - Konrad9, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3My school has an e-mail called "residentialstudents@schoolnameandstuff.edu" and it forwards that e-mail, to well, all of the residential students.
Even the SCHOOL uses it for spam (less than 25% of us have cars but if they have something to tell us about parking....). You really have to wonder what goes through people's minds before they hit "Send." - alej744, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6"stupidest" isn't a word, I believe you meant "most stupid". Nice one, idiot!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Even when it's not just first and last name (as in Drexel University's case), there is usually a directory.
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/services/unix_homepages/under.html
All the pages are of the format:
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~ca32/
The email address would be the 'ca32' plus '@drexel.edu'
Copying the source to excel and using =LEFT(RIGHT(A1, LEN(...... would get you all the email addresses. - Chakz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Someone clue me in...
- Nistavar, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7Ramen is the reason that MSG is the source of all modern intellectual life.
- modpancake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@Persol:
As a similar example, http://home.nyc.rr.com/ is a listing of NYC RoadRunner users who have set up homepages. Each user would have to have a matching @nyc.rr.com account in order to claim that space. It's not a hole; they chose to do this... although, it is leaving a large portion of their subscriber base open for abuse.
Other examples:
http://home.socal.rr.com/ - Southern California
http://home.neb.rr.com/ - Lincoln, Nebraska
http://home.woh.rr.com/ - Western Ohio
http://home.nc.rr.com/ - North Carolina - zoransa, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4No let's do math:
20,000 page impressions of 30kb = 600MB and 1GB of traffic is let's say $0.20 but if page with all images is 300kb still it is $2 and lets add cost for hosting $10 for dedicated server per day that is $12.
Well $12 and one lead is how much? if you could make 64 leads out od 20,000 diggers that visit your site, well that would be about $1000 and you have RIO of 8500% - wheel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3@Chakz:
1. Go to www.google.com, type "glengarry," then hit "I'm Feeling Lucky."
2. ?????
3. Profit! - puffinfresh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You can still reply to all those in the To field
- praxis22, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1In that case I nominate you to design it, and then force the world to use it.
"yeah, that'll happen"
A great many things in life are "broken" sadly however, forcing life to accept the redesign is where most of the troubles lie. - DatDamWuf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This one's on you really, using your personal email address for this kind of thing is a bad idea. Create a hotmail or other email account to use for these types of inquiries, otherwise you will end up on so many spammers list your inbox will be snowed under. I only use my personal email at sites that are secured and have a good privacy policy. I get only 1 or 2 spams a day, sometimes not even that.
- toxicredm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Most likely not a "mistake" per se, but someone who didn't know what the BCC field is for.
- lukas88, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The average person doesn't know how this could cause people trouble, so the average person isn't going to know that it is a stupid thing to do.
My guess is that the person who sent the newsletter was an average person.
The moral is, don't give your name/email address to companies that you are not sure know how to handle them privately if that is important to you. Companies you can trust are ones that have a reputation for competency. - m3mn0n, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1this is in Technology / Security why?
This has nothing to do with security - DooDooFace, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Exactly, a thousand spammers have my address already, and I'm pretty careful and use aliases that I can dispose of.
- thecoolestcow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2alej744:
Wow way to make a complete fool of yourself. The superlative form of "stupid" is in fact "stupidest." Look it up on either site listed below, and the word will come up. This is because it is, contrary to common belief, a word. Congratulations.
http://m-w.com
http://dictionary.com - somnus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I work for a health authority with 20,000 plus people, not including another 5,000+ other people on the ".all" email list. One day, I found this in my email:
"hi again everyone,
i have entered my little angel in a baby top model contest and she needs your votes...so please starting on June 20th at noon is when the final contest begins from...please go to [website] and click on the vote button and choose mariyah she is wearing white...we will appreciate your vote...thank you to all.
warmly,
(signed)"
Not only did they use the ".all" address, but they also put on there every department list, so everyone was on there in triplicate. Just in case? I don't know...
Then 20+ people hit the "reply all" with "remove me from this list please!", when it's the official corporate email list...
The cherry on top was that the email was 1MB for some reason, resulting in about 500,000MB used up on the system between the email and subsequent replies. - themoose, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1DHL did that to me once. Much more people, too. All I got in the end was a lousy voucher.
- billizm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"if someone offered me $100,000 to simply forward them that e-mail, I can’t say with 100% certainty that I wouldn’t do it."
For 1k addresses? I'd do it for $10. =P - mercurysquad, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2What do you do if your ISP sends spam?
Or if your cellular carrier sends you spam SMS's 5 times a day?
"Enjoy background music while you talk! Dial 1234 before the number you want to call. Charges apply $2.99/min."
Yeah, learn to live with it (ie. ignore it). - iSlappy, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6You call yourself a salesman, you son of a bitch?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2OK, so let me get this straight - this article is cool and should be digged because random guy got a mail with 1000 email addresses, and he wants to sell them?
If so, I only regret there's no "God DAMN, this is almost as lame as all the wii crap!" choice to bury it with. - puffinfresh, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2I did a similar thing with one of those stupid "forward this email to 15 people or your Hotmail account will be closed down" emails. So many people were forwarding it, even if they didn't have a Hotmail account. It's not that hard to know that Hotmail can't legally monitor which emails you send, and to how many people (then again, I haven't read the T&Cs, so maybe they can, but not in order to close down your account for inactivity). They simply close it if you haven't logged in for x days (x being 30 from memory).
- JEmerson, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Agreed. Most of the people reading this have their phone number in their city phone book, and their address available from a search engine.
For a while I was paid to track people down. It was for fairly cheerful, benign reasons, working at a university alumni office. But believe me, anyone who wants to get in contact with someone who's not faking a new life is going to be able to do so with a few bucks to a million and one different companies that do the same.
And is it really that bad? Are we so scared of having to interact with others at this point that we're hiding any and all means of contact? Or so ashamed of our actions that we hide what we do? - bigfkncee, on 10/12/2007, -9/+5Post an anti-apple story on digg
- mrgono3, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2The Poll is interesting. Lot of unconsiderate people who would sell the list.
Given the situation in this blog post, would you ever sell the list?
Yes, if I could get at least $10,000. 51%
Yes, if I could get at least $25,000. 11%
Yes, if I could get at least $100,000. 10%
Yes, if I could get at least $1,000,000. 8%
Never. 20%
Total Votes: 1206 - ddn3d, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3Why does this make digg?
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