From: customercare@newegg.com Subject: Order Confirmation number: 37679041 Body: Dear Customer, Thank you for ordering from our internet shop. If you paid with a credit card, the charge on your statement will be from name of our shop. This email is to confirm the receipt of your order. Please do not reply as this email was…
Survey: Consumers lose to online schemes – Yahoo! News: [C]onsumers lost $630 million over the past two years to e-mail scams. That is nothing compared to the $7.8 billion people spent on computer repair. I’m interested in how many consumers are victims of email scams. Also, the median amount lost. Guess I’ll have to do…
overheard in athens: Guy 1: Man, the grass on north campus is really tall. Guy 2: Your mother hasn’t been out to graze in a whle. I so miss 6th grade!
I know as a sales person the idea is that by keeping you in my head, I am going to be more likely to buy from you. It might help to think of me less as a “sale” and more as a person. The constant emails with Return Receipts and phone calls can get annoying.…
I find some of the emails that circulate around here funny. Here is an example. A hubcap off someone’s vehicle was found in our parking lot. Claim at front desk.
Sorry… A comment spammer found my blog today. WordPress did an okay job to moderate the ~150 it tried to post. Rather than see the emails from the spammer attempting to post, I decided that since I don’t get many comments anyway, to just require one to login to post a comment. So, if you…
People are all over discounting email as a useful communication medium. The only difference between email and paper memos is the ability to send them so quickly. In another job, I usually sent important emails to my boss who then rewrote them to make them more palatable for the wide public. In the end, knowing…
This hilarious email exchange at about hackers, CentOS, a web host, and a former computer systems engineer turned politician made my evening. LOL