4 PM's not spam, but not for me
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Re: 4 PM's not spam, but not for me
A colleague of mine once accidentally emailed everyone in Shell UK, which ran to many thousands of people.
Lots of people replied-all saying 'it's not for me'.
Then lots of people replied-all saying 'please don't reply all', which was somewhat ironic!
I wonder if that will happen here
Lots of people replied-all saying 'it's not for me'.
Then lots of people replied-all saying 'please don't reply all', which was somewhat ironic!
I wonder if that will happen here
Re: 4 PM's not spam, but not for me
Looks like we're heading that way...
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Re: 4 PM's not spam, but not for me
Pint of Tetleys!
Ta lov!
Ta lov!
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Re: 4 PM's not spam, but not for me
Seriously, its just spam? Wtf? I thought I had my account hacked. Shouldn't allow a feature to contact every member. Thought some gobsh&te was using my account to sell stuff for a moment. Happened to me before on ebay.
Grr
Grr
Re: 4 PM's not spam, but not for me
On the bright side...
It's nice to see some sleepers surface, even if they immediately go back to sleep again
It's nice to see some sleepers surface, even if they immediately go back to sleep again
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Re: 4 PM's not spam, but not for me
Not spam. Just a small user error which accidentally sent a PM to every member rather than one specific person. And then those with the preference set also received an email... and more emails when some replied to the original PM.
It wasn't malicious and it wasn't a hack. Its just an embarrassing mishap.
Shouldn't allow a feature to contact every member.
The feature is there for legitimate admin purposes, but it shouldn't have been accessible to ordinary forum members. None of us realised it was accessible, and it is being investigated and will be fixed.
So, apologies for the inconvenience. It will be fixed as soon as possible, but there may be some echoes through the weekend as others find and report it!
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Re: 4 PM's not spam, but not for me
For those who are wondering, the t rex spin doctor takes 2.5 amps of 12 volt DC tip negative!
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Re: 4 PM's not spam, but not for me
Martin Walker wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 5:58 pm
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Re: 4 PM's not spam, but not for me
I only got the original four emails. Now I'm feeling unloved
CC
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Re: 4 PM's not spam, but not for me
I had to Google this and I learned what Hanlon's Razor is today.
A most excellent and useful concept, thank you!
Just goes to show that out of every disaster comes a learning opportunity.
Still a bit baffled as to how it's accidentally possible to click on 'Create New Private Message" and then add both lists of all 'Registered Members' and all 'Moderators' into the recipient field and then click 'Send'. But hey, my Mac updates itself overnight even when switched off these days so who knows what kind of mischief our machines get up to when we're asleep.
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Re: 4 PM's not spam, but not for me
Absolutely- and there was no malicious intent/spam.
I have no idea about how IT and emails work, but I was expecting to find many, many PMs this morning as people hit reply on the original ones to create a PM howlround.
If someone in background managed to stop that happening- he/she/they should take a bow.
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