Following on from Brian's wee cockup earlier what's the most embarrassing, damaging, etc. wrongly addressed email you have come across?
Mine is when a major competitor of ours sent our sister company a special offer spread sheet attached to an email with a second page in the background detailing all their buying costs and suppliers!
Mike
How about posting a newsgroup message wrongly attributing a c*ck-up to Brian? ;-)
Tim
oh without a doubt it s the one that bounced to me as postmaster of about 100 different companies that went something like this
"Brian:; I can't tell; you how much I am waiting for you to get back from work., I've got a hard on already standing here naked in the kitchen cooking a wonderful supper for us, after which brian, its got to be just like this morning
Your ever loving david"
I don't think he meant c*ck up quite that literally.
Colin Bignell
"Muddymike" grunted in news: snipped-for-privacy@brightview.com:
At the company I worked for a client of the company emailed one of my colleagues (IIRC) for some costs for a new project. This client was a regular PITA; very fussy, nit-picking, and not a particularly nice guy - all of which was mentioned directly by my colleague in the email she forwarded to her boss at the company, requesting approval of her costing spreadsheet before she sent it on to the client.
Except (and you know what's coming) she didn't "forward" her email, she hit "reply to all", so her diatribe went straight back to the client. Who promptly pulled his 1m+ account. Ouch.
"Yours was yum" (emailed all around the world)
Many years ago, I worked for a small company in a largeish Yorkshire town. We got taken over by a vast Californian monster (which then became a somewhat smaller entity and itself later got taken over). The new company insisted we all use the new company's meeting scheduling software, so we had an afternoon session on how to use it: the new company IT department came in and set up what was supposedly an isolated network in the training room. I was getting slightly bored by the end of the afternoon, and sent round a global invitation asking if anyone fancied a sh*g. Unfortunately, the techies who set up the test/training rig did not isolate the training rig, and the message went global. I didn't hear about it until much later, however, I understand the techies who set the rig up had some egg on their faces, and my manager did get a couple of phone calls. Somewhat unfortunately, it was about the time that Austin Powers had made it across the pond, so everyone over there was quite conversant with UK slang :-)
I think the one which gave me a chuckle was a message from our council supposed to go to another department commenting on my email to them suggesting I was a difficult person to deal with and to be very careful what they said. This just confirmed to me that most council employees see the customers of their services as the enemy to be fought off at all costs!
Obviously very embarrassing for the lady concerned, which I rubbed in mercilessly of course. Fair game I thought.
Brian
I think the c*ck up was definitely someone elses, but then attribution in my view is best left till the bottom of all news posts. ducks behind sofa.
Brian
On Friday 29 November 2013 09:42 Allan wrote in uk.d-i-y:
More importntly, did anyone "accept" your meeting invite?
Sounds like the ones we periodically get from a certain Russian web site trying to marry people off to uk citizens.
Brian Only in reverse so to speak. Brian
Maybe customers like that are not really a great loss..
One of the many slight undocumented features of Outlook Express of course is its ability just at odd times to send the email to the wrong person even though you selected the right one in the address book. As far as I know nobody ever fixed it. My guess is some kind of database corruption in a temp file, but there you go. Brian
My guess would be that it's much more likely to be related to the kind of user who use Outlook Express...
On Friday 29 November 2013 11:40 Brian Gaff wrote in uk.d-i-y:
Next time, ask her if your file has a red dot on it, or the letters "PV" (Potentially Violent) and see what she does :)
Anyone using OE is asking for trouble, it hasn't been supported or fixed for years. It was superseded by WLM and I don't think that is current.
dennis@home put finger to keyboard:
OE was by far and away the best newsgroup client though (Quotefix requirement notwithstanding). I mourn its passing.
:¬)
We had one like that from a Major World Wide Fitness Equipment brand which for the "Life" of me I can't remember....
It detailed every supplier in the UK (our competitors), their spend for the last 12 months, discount percentage and every other juicy thing we could wish to see... Quite an eye-opener to see what we thought were major players were actually buying very little from them.
Company Disclaimer... "if you are not the intended recipient for this information please delete it without reading it"
Um... well it was sent to our e-mail address so we had to read it obviously.
I'm still using it (when on my desktop pc).
Tim
Let me introduce you to OE Classic, works on new versions of Windows and looks almost identical.
The spreadsheet sent out to a very large mailing list inside Xerox by an administrative assistant, seeking help with formatting. It was the sales (and hence commission) figures for all the Xerox salesmen in Florida.
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