Archive for September 6th, 2007

You Know What’s Arrogant?

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Here’s pure arrogance for you: having an auto-responder on your email account that responds back to every single person that emails you with a message that says “Thanks for your email, but I’m so busy that I only check email twice a day so I’ll get back to you later”. What kind of self-important person thinks that they’re so vital to the world that they need to inform me that they can’t get to my email right away? What kind of a person thinks it’s ok to clog up my inbox with a message telling me how much email they get?

What kind of a person rants on a blog about other people late at night? Wait, don’t answer that…

Quechup: The New Internet Plague

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

If you get an email in your inbox that looks anything like this, delete it and don’t respond:

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It seems they have an extremely aggressive way of going after people to get them to join - when someone signs up and the user says “Check for Friends” and selects their address book, rather than scanning the address book and seeing if there’s a match for any of the email addresses, it sends out an invite to every single email address it can find! That’s absolutely ridiculous and ranks right up there with the worst social engineering spyware I’ve seen - the intention of the user is to see which of his friends are already on Quechup, not invite them all. If the option said “Invite all my friends”, which is what it’s really doing, you can be sure most people wouldn’t be selecting that option. Facebook is more than enough for me to try and keep up with, thank you very much…