That “Oh crap, I just hit the SEND button!” Moment
They call it “Blind” Carbon Copy. I never thought people would be blind enough not to see it. Here’s something about Valleyschwag becoming Valleyspam, from Andy Merrett.
It’s annoying when a friend does it, but when a tech company that should know better (and have the resources to handle it) sends mail to nearly 500 people at once and lists them all in the ‘To’ field, it’s just plain unacceptable.
This morning I received my latest ‘Valleyschwag’ news update. To be perfectly honest I didn’t look at the header, until I received another mail from someone I’d never heard of.
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So I looked at the original message again to find my email address and some 464 others plainly listed for anyone to see.
Someone’s been click-happy lately.
