Spam, spam, egg chips and spam.

[denny]

I got home last night and found an email from one of the researchers for the Trisha programme on Channel 5, asking for my help and advice on finding guests for a show about fetishes. I replied explaining some of the concerns typically found in the community about these kind of programmes, and pointing him in the direction of my website, where I suggested he could submit a 'request' article.

Then I went and checked my website.

Not only had he submitted the same 'request for guests' article three times before finally realising it wasn't going to leap straight onto the front page until I approved it, but he had then gone on to post his request for guests as a comment in reply to several of the completely unrelated articles at the top of the front page at that time.

I wasn't all that impressed with this, so I sent an email to him, CCed to his boss and Ch5's customer service address, pointing out that my first advice to him would be to do some research into netiquette, and not to spam community websites in future. I was quite expecting it to be laughed at and deleted, but I actually got an apology from him this morning... I think he used the phrase 'my ham-fisted methods' :) and to his credit, his email arrived a few minutes before the one from his boss. Which said that she hadn't emailed me, but would be looking into who had - I did cite him in the reply, but oh well, obviously technology is not a strong point in their company...

Comments

[sepheri.livejournal.com]

What a bunch of idiots!
I can't see anyone I know applying, those things end up ridiculing that which they claim to want to discuss.
Some one out there certainly will though.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

To some extent it's a self-perpetuating problem... the sensible people avoid the show, so the idiots go on it and make idiots of themselves, thereby putting the sensible people off of associating themselves with them on any future shows, leaving only the idiots to go on the shows.....

[kelemvor.livejournal.com]

Ye gods.
His boss didn't notice that her name was in the "CC" field and not the "To" field? Surely that's one of the first things you check when you receive an E-mail apparently addresses to someone else...
Did he copy his boss on his reply? That ought to confuse her even more!

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Like I said, technology obviously not their strong point. The first line of the email I sent was "On [date] [time] [stupid researcher's name] wrote:" - the standard email client quote citation... yet she said she would 'look into' who had emailed me. *shakes head*

[nullstr.livejournal.com]

I think he used the phrase 'my ham-fisted methods' :)

Vaguely Freudian?!? Marvellous...