Email ettiquite nightmares

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ARGH. Having a MYCOMMONNAME@gmail.com address is awful. I've been getting all these huge word attachments of biz documents from some real estate agents. So I write back to tell them that they have the wrong address and I get this --

I apologize for this automatic reply to your email.

To control spam, I now allow incoming messages only from senders I have approved beforehand.

If you would like to be added to my list of approved senders, please fill out the short request form (see link below). Once I approve you, I will receive your original message in my inbox. You do not need to resend your message. I apologize for this one-time inconvenience.

Click the link below to fill out the request:

DONGHUFFER. The next page even has a captcha that I have to fill out just to send them a one line message asking to be approved to email them.

http://danielneamu.rdscv.ro/cutenews/images/blogger_captcha.png

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Thursday, 15 June 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Also, posting your resume on craigslist or anywhere where recruiters can get it means you'll get 100000 dumbshit recruiters sending you Plaxo requests for the rest of your life.

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Thursday, 15 June 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

My husband, who also has COMMONISHNAME@gmail.com, was getting correspondence between two parties embroiled in a divorce for awhile. The very weird thing was that the estranged husband and wife had the same first names that he and I have.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 15 June 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

The world is against you today, Jon. It is punnishment for turning up in my dream last night.

― Sundogs at 22 Degrees (kate), Thursday, 15 June 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

I also had an ATM eat my bank card and then my metrocard ran out so I had to use my precious cash to buy a new one.

(TELL)

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Thursday, 15 June 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

No way. It might actually possibly disgust you slightly more than it disgusted me. :-P

― Sundogs at 22 Degrees (kate), Thursday, 15 June 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

lets see how this one plays out

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Thursday, 15 June 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

Also today, AOL called me to collect on outstanding "debt" that stemmed from them disassociating my Time Warner Cable account from the FREE AOL LOL ACCOUNT that came with it. I already resolved this problem months ago!

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Thursday, 15 June 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Jon is on AOL, haha n00b.

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Thursday, 15 June 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://pagesperso.aol.fr/zzhilaryduffzz/images/cd%204444444.jpg

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Thursday, 15 June 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

I am always paralysed with indecision when it comes to choosing the correct form of address for a prospective employer... I usually go with first name (emails are less formal than letters, right?), but I have become irrationally paranoid in the past that this is the reason I haven't got certain jobs.*

*It's certainly never been because I have a tourette's like tendency to blurt out "Well, I'm pretty lazy and kind of slovenly" when asked to list my weaknesses in a job interview. Oh no.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Thursday, 15 June 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

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