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It was quite a dodgy afternoon at SR Towers. Some twazock at spong.com managed to email over a thousand industry people, I believe it was the fist quarter of his email contacts list that he must have bought somewhere He managed to share all of their email details with everyone else. So im sitting there with email address for head honchos at Xbox, Capcom, Midway etc etc. Then everyone started doing Reply all and swearing and cursing at this Spong.com person.
Seeing the anger i replied all and told everyone that they should hold hands across the world, pray for peace and hand out cheeseburgers to the homeless...
Has anyone ever done a reply all to over a thousand people they don't know? Not a good idea. Out of a thousand people, about 10% of the people didn't work at the companies anymore and their emails bounced back (you do the math!), about 15% were out of the office until such and such a date and they would reply to my email when they got back (bloody auto-responders) and about another 5% didn't see the funny side and got even more irate.
I spent a good proportion of my afternoon emptying my inbox, and i bet it didn't stop when i left either, i can't wait to see my inbox tomorrow!
Seeing the anger i replied all and told everyone that they should hold hands across the world, pray for peace and hand out cheeseburgers to the homeless...
Has anyone ever done a reply all to over a thousand people they don't know? Not a good idea. Out of a thousand people, about 10% of the people didn't work at the companies anymore and their emails bounced back (you do the math!), about 15% were out of the office until such and such a date and they would reply to my email when they got back (bloody auto-responders) and about another 5% didn't see the funny side and got even more irate.
I spent a good proportion of my afternoon emptying my inbox, and i bet it didn't stop when i left either, i can't wait to see my inbox tomorrow!
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Can't help you with the email address Dog, it's just not good business practice. But Capcom are a very strange company. As i understand it, Capcom in this country is actually run out of the Sony offices like Namco is. You may wanna try and email Sony and see if they can help. Other wise try and buy it off Ebay!
Hey, I know you said you can't give any of those email addresses, but I've got a friend who really wants "Marvel Vs Capcom 2" which you don't currently sell (he chose it as a GAD win once then had to change cos it wasn't on his list)
Would it be possible to have the email address of someone from sales at Capcom so that he can get that game. He's tried everywhere and he still can't find it!
Would it be possible to have the email address of someone from sales at Capcom so that he can get that game. He's tried everywhere and he still can't find it!
Well i just went down the pub and got a cheese burger of my own, damn them all to hell!
I could have done with a nice cheese burger this afternoon, I tells ya!
All these industry bods eh? They have a well paid job, doing something involving games all day every day, AND someone offers them a free cheese burger, and they get all arsey.
Bastads, the lot of 'em. Maybe they should take their heads out of their a***s, eh?
:-D
All these industry bods eh? They have a well paid job, doing something involving games all day every day, AND someone offers them a free cheese burger, and they get all arsey.
Bastads, the lot of 'em. Maybe they should take their heads out of their a***s, eh?
:-D
Thanks for the Info there Your Honour. I'm sure there will be a story on the register at some point over the weekend about the whole god damn fiasco. I thought it would have ended when i suggested they all hand out cheese burgers but how wrong i was!
Hybrid Valves wrote:
I do quite a lot of work at SR Towers, apart from Mr Snuggly, i'm probably the hardest worker there!
So only the two of you work there then? :-D
I do quite a lot of work at SR Towers, apart from Mr Snuggly, i'm probably the hardest worker there!
So only the two of you work there then? :-D
Still something not quite right about your name, Your Honour...
I didn't know what Spong.com was, so I went to have a look and saw this:
Lowly scumbag messes with SPOnG's name and reputation
On Friday 1st March, members of the computer games industry and press were subjected to an avalanche of unwarranted email bearing SPOnG's name.
The mail, designed to bring SPOnG into disrepute, was sent to recipients of a geniune SPOnG email sent some two weeks ago. However, the recipient list of this new mail was altered to include members of the press who did not receive the original message.
Marcus Dyson, CEO of SPOnG said, "We sent a mail out a few weeks ago, and to our eternal shame, and embarrasment, the names of some recipients went into the 'cc' field, where they could be seen by other recipients.
"At the time, the industry responded maturely, and either read our mail or binned it. We received one complaint, and we apologised.
"However, on March 1st, an individual using the email address [email protected] re-sent the mail to all the original recipients, in an effort to discredit SPOnG.
"Understandably upset, people began to repond to the mail, including all recipients, and things quickly got out of hand. However, it soon became apparent that the distribution list of the new mail was designed to embarrass SPOnG, since it included members of the mainstream media who had not been on the original list. We are truly sorry for our original mistake, but until this mischief-maker brought it up again, that incident had passed with relatively little upset."
"SPOnG is opposed to spam mail, we receive enough of it ourselves and we have no wish to add to others' burden. In these circumstances, while we are by no means blameless, we are being tarnished by the actions of this [email protected] character, who wasn't on the original recipient list, and clearly bears a grudge against SPOnG."
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The bastads won't let anyone right click on their page to copy stuff. Some stupid message comes up. So I had to bloody do Ctrl + C. Effort!
Lowly scumbag messes with SPOnG's name and reputation
On Friday 1st March, members of the computer games industry and press were subjected to an avalanche of unwarranted email bearing SPOnG's name.
The mail, designed to bring SPOnG into disrepute, was sent to recipients of a geniune SPOnG email sent some two weeks ago. However, the recipient list of this new mail was altered to include members of the press who did not receive the original message.
Marcus Dyson, CEO of SPOnG said, "We sent a mail out a few weeks ago, and to our eternal shame, and embarrasment, the names of some recipients went into the 'cc' field, where they could be seen by other recipients.
"At the time, the industry responded maturely, and either read our mail or binned it. We received one complaint, and we apologised.
"However, on March 1st, an individual using the email address [email protected] re-sent the mail to all the original recipients, in an effort to discredit SPOnG.
"Understandably upset, people began to repond to the mail, including all recipients, and things quickly got out of hand. However, it soon became apparent that the distribution list of the new mail was designed to embarrass SPOnG, since it included members of the mainstream media who had not been on the original list. We are truly sorry for our original mistake, but until this mischief-maker brought it up again, that incident had passed with relatively little upset."
"SPOnG is opposed to spam mail, we receive enough of it ourselves and we have no wish to add to others' burden. In these circumstances, while we are by no means blameless, we are being tarnished by the actions of this [email protected] character, who wasn't on the original recipient list, and clearly bears a grudge against SPOnG."
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The bastads won't let anyone right click on their page to copy stuff. Some stupid message comes up. So I had to bloody do Ctrl + C. Effort!
Your Honour wrote:
> So, do you actually do any work at SR towers then?
You're not still at work
> now, are you?
Don't suppose you'd like to share some of those email address
> with us, would you...?
I do quite a lot of work at SR Towers, apart from Mr Snuggly, i'm probably the hardest worker there! I'm not still at work now thank god but will be 2morrow!
I would love to share those email addressess with you, but then i'd have to kill you ha ha!!
> So, do you actually do any work at SR towers then?
You're not still at work
> now, are you?
Don't suppose you'd like to share some of those email address
> with us, would you...?
I do quite a lot of work at SR Towers, apart from Mr Snuggly, i'm probably the hardest worker there! I'm not still at work now thank god but will be 2morrow!
I would love to share those email addressess with you, but then i'd have to kill you ha ha!!
So, do you actually do any work at SR towers then?
You're not still at work now, are you?
Don't suppose you'd like to share some of those email address with us, would you...?
You're not still at work now, are you?
Don't suppose you'd like to share some of those email address with us, would you...?
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