Comments on: Spam for spock.com http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2008/06/16/spam-for-spockcom/ Miscellaneous ramblings on miscellaneous topics Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:18:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jay http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2008/06/16/spam-for-spockcom/comment-page-1/#comment-1631 Jay Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:01:12 +0000 http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/?p=521#comment-1631 <p>Hi - I understand your level of anger when your recieved this mail and I was equally angry when this bug accidently got into our mailer. What happened was</p> <ol> <li><p>Someone wanted to send you an invite to Spock. And it was there name that was supposed to be in the header of the mail. </p></li> <li><p>Our bug caused the name of the invitee to be in the header as opposed to the inviters name. I am sure you can see this is a bug since the email makes no sense that you would send yourself an invite</p></li> <li><p>Only you got an email that you are inviting yourself to Spock. It did not get sent to anyone else.....so if someone named "Tom" invited "Dick, Jane, and Harry" to Spock - Dick got an email saying he is inviting himself, Jane got an email saying she is inviting herself, etc, etc. when they all should have gotten an email saying that Tom invited them..Please rest assured that NO ONE else got an email saying that you invited someone. </p></li> </ol> <p>I am sorry that you were affected by this. If you are ever in the bay area, I will personally buy all of you lunch to apologize in person. This is a dumb bug that we caught in 24 hours and fixed asap.</p> Hi – I understand your level of anger when your recieved this mail and I was equally angry when this bug accidently got into our mailer. What happened was

  1. Someone wanted to send you an invite to Spock. And it was there name that was supposed to be in the header of the mail.

  2. Our bug caused the name of the invitee to be in the header as opposed to the inviters name. I am sure you can see this is a bug since the email makes no sense that you would send yourself an invite

  3. Only you got an email that you are inviting yourself to Spock. It did not get sent to anyone else…..so if someone named “Tom” invited “Dick, Jane, and Harry” to Spock – Dick got an email saying he is inviting himself, Jane got an email saying she is inviting herself, etc, etc. when they all should have gotten an email saying that Tom invited them..Please rest assured that NO ONE else got an email saying that you invited someone.

I am sorry that you were affected by this. If you are ever in the bay area, I will personally buy all of you lunch to apologize in person. This is a dumb bug that we caught in 24 hours and fixed asap.

]]> By: Head Geek http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2008/06/16/spam-for-spockcom/comment-page-1/#comment-1621 Head Geek Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:47:47 +0000 http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/?p=521#comment-1621 <p>How better to demonstrate that you're a company with no ethical standards than to show how well you can spam the technological elite of the Internet? (Rolls Ploni's eyes back to him, gotta be careful with those things.) ;-)</p> How better to demonstrate that you’re a company with no ethical standards than to show how well you can spam the technological elite of the Internet? (Rolls Ploni’s eyes back to him, gotta be careful with those things.) ;-)

]]> By: Ploni Almoni http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2008/06/16/spam-for-spockcom/comment-page-1/#comment-1618 Ploni Almoni Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:20:48 +0000 http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/?p=521#comment-1618 <p>How else better to demonstrate the power of a people search engine that snoops into people's habits than to show how well it can find their personal information? (Rolls eyes.)</p> How else better to demonstrate the power of a people search engine that snoops into people’s habits than to show how well it can find their personal information? (Rolls eyes.)

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