Spam, spam, egg chips and spam.
Sep. 20th, 2005 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dennyI 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...
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...
