Unsolicited emails
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Am I the only one who gets people emailing their projects to you ? My email is stuffed today, because of a 3 MB file, most of which is compiler generated files which should have been deleted, and because my mail program cannot finish the job, I get three emails prior to this one and this one, every time I check my mail. I dunno why, when I check it with webmail or manually, it claims the mailbox is empty. Where is it coming from ? Why am I cursed ? Why did I still try and help this person ? Why is my life LIKE this ? Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002
You are not alone, though I bet you get considerably more than the one (1) I've had to date. It wasn't (thank god) anywhere near 3 MB, but I did get a zip file of a nice image thumbnailer program's source, and was told (not asked) to make it use mine and Norm's Office 2k style file dialog! :wtf: I kept one of the classes in the program that showed how to read property information form files (there was no license information in the source file, what a shame ;)) and then sent my standard "bounced e-mail" message back to the sender to stop them contacting me again. I politely point them to the message boards here on CP if they ask a question unrelated to my article (and incidentially these requests *always* come from that file dialog article), but this person had crossed the line. It's a sad say indeed when I can't even be fussed to write a witty reply in return. :((
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
David Wulff Born and Bred.
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You are not alone, though I bet you get considerably more than the one (1) I've had to date. It wasn't (thank god) anywhere near 3 MB, but I did get a zip file of a nice image thumbnailer program's source, and was told (not asked) to make it use mine and Norm's Office 2k style file dialog! :wtf: I kept one of the classes in the program that showed how to read property information form files (there was no license information in the source file, what a shame ;)) and then sent my standard "bounced e-mail" message back to the sender to stop them contacting me again. I politely point them to the message boards here on CP if they ask a question unrelated to my article (and incidentially these requests *always* come from that file dialog article), but this person had crossed the line. It's a sad say indeed when I can't even be fussed to write a witty reply in return. :((
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
David Wulff Born and Bred.
*grin* This guy was polite and all, it was just the file size and my locked email that upset me. But I've had projects emailed with a description of my task as if I were a student (probably because they repeated their assignment to me). Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002
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*grin* This guy was polite and all, it was just the file size and my locked email that upset me. But I've had projects emailed with a description of my task as if I were a student (probably because they repeated their assignment to me). Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002
Christian Graus wrote: probably because they repeated their assignment to me You know, if you get in touch with your evil side you could have a lot of fun at these moron's expenses. I'm sure you could count on at least half of them not being able to (or not being willing to) read through the source code or test the program thoughouly * that you send in return, so simply add some code to pop up the default browser after, say, five minutes of run time and point it to that "you are an idiot, ha ha ha ha ha ha" singing flash movie out there. :-D * goddamnit how do you spell that word?! I have never been able to spell that one - NEVER! :-O
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
David Wulff Born and Bred.
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Christian Graus wrote: probably because they repeated their assignment to me You know, if you get in touch with your evil side you could have a lot of fun at these moron's expenses. I'm sure you could count on at least half of them not being able to (or not being willing to) read through the source code or test the program thoughouly * that you send in return, so simply add some code to pop up the default browser after, say, five minutes of run time and point it to that "you are an idiot, ha ha ha ha ha ha" singing flash movie out there. :-D * goddamnit how do you spell that word?! I have never been able to spell that one - NEVER! :-O
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
David Wulff Born and Bred.
David Wulff wrote: thoughouly David Wulff wrote: * goddamnit how do you spell that word?! With a space: "though ghouly". I've never seen that contracted before, though i have seen plenty of ghouly programs... Shog9 ------
Sitting in muddy water isn't such a bad life, if it ends after the first time... - Yoko Kanno, The Real Folk Blues
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Christian Graus wrote: probably because they repeated their assignment to me You know, if you get in touch with your evil side you could have a lot of fun at these moron's expenses. I'm sure you could count on at least half of them not being able to (or not being willing to) read through the source code or test the program thoughouly * that you send in return, so simply add some code to pop up the default browser after, say, five minutes of run time and point it to that "you are an idiot, ha ha ha ha ha ha" singing flash movie out there. :-D * goddamnit how do you spell that word?! I have never been able to spell that one - NEVER! :-O
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
David Wulff Born and Bred.
I agree with you thoroughly, that is a fine idea :P Seriously, I need to paste that URL to my monitor, I had the perfect chance when someone posted their homework to the ASP forum, and although I went back and offered it, I am sure my original sarcastic reply had already scared them off. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002
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Am I the only one who gets people emailing their projects to you ? My email is stuffed today, because of a 3 MB file, most of which is compiler generated files which should have been deleted, and because my mail program cannot finish the job, I get three emails prior to this one and this one, every time I check my mail. I dunno why, when I check it with webmail or manually, it claims the mailbox is empty. Where is it coming from ? Why am I cursed ? Why did I still try and help this person ? Why is my life LIKE this ? Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002
Put some text in your sig that tells readers that you'll not reply to them if they send to your e-mail directly!? Rickard Andersson@Suza Computing C# and C++ programmer from SWEDEN! UIN: 50302279 E-Mail: nikado@pc.nu Speciality: I love C#, ASP.NET and C++!
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Put some text in your sig that tells readers that you'll not reply to them if they send to your e-mail directly!? Rickard Andersson@Suza Computing C# and C++ programmer from SWEDEN! UIN: 50302279 E-Mail: nikado@pc.nu Speciality: I love C#, ASP.NET and C++!
That's not a bad idea, but I'd hate to seem standoffish, so that people would be scared to ask me a question at all. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002
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That's not a bad idea, but I'd hate to seem standoffish, so that people would be scared to ask me a question at all. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002
Christian Graus wrote: but I'd hate to seem standoffish, so that people would be scared to ask me a question at all. :wtf: You've said you don't want to get questions directly to your e-mail box? So.... how do they ask YOU in other ways? They don't ask YOU here on CP, they ask US? So... :-D Rickard Andersson@Suza Computing C# and C++ programmer from SWEDEN! UIN: 50302279 E-Mail: nikado@pc.nu Speciality: I love C#, ASP.NET and C++!
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Am I the only one who gets people emailing their projects to you ? My email is stuffed today, because of a 3 MB file, most of which is compiler generated files which should have been deleted, and because my mail program cannot finish the job, I get three emails prior to this one and this one, every time I check my mail. I dunno why, when I check it with webmail or manually, it claims the mailbox is empty. Where is it coming from ? Why am I cursed ? Why did I still try and help this person ? Why is my life LIKE this ? Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002
I had a guy ask me in an email if I'd mind looking at his project (The guy we both tried to help yesterday with the "too many variables problem"). I said ok, but he says that he couldn't send me the mail because of a mailbox limit. Maybe he sent the project to you instead of me as I have no mailbox limits set. Sorry. Michael Life’s not a song. Life isn’t bliss. Life is just this. It’s living. -- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once more, with feeling
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You're a helpful person. In many ways, this is bad for you, but good for the rest of us... ;) Shog9 ------
Sitting in muddy water isn't such a bad life, if it ends after the first time... - Yoko Kanno, The Real Folk Blues
Yeah, I can relate to that. A few years ago I built an FAQ about developing for the VMU (the teeny pda-memory card for the dreamcast) - most of the info was culled from mailing lists and message boards (standing on the shoulders of giants.) I still get people sending blatantly stupid emails (either not relating to development, such as "Can you hack this game save for me so I've got infinite lives??" or ones that prove the mailer has just found the faq, clicked on the email link, and sent a message straight off, without actually reading the faq at all (or posting a question to the mailing lists / message boards) I used to reply with a link back to the relevant answer in the FAQ, but I find myself bothering less and less (especially as I've no-longer got direct FTP access to the places where the FAQ still lives on the web, and the email address given now just gives a "this email account is no longer used due to spam abuse if you're a real person, please email me here.." message , that seems to be too cryptic for them to actually understand (heh, I remember when Bigfoot would filter spam for free - now it seems they sign you up for it and then try and sell you the filtering options) -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
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Am I the only one who gets people emailing their projects to you ? My email is stuffed today, because of a 3 MB file, most of which is compiler generated files which should have been deleted, and because my mail program cannot finish the job, I get three emails prior to this one and this one, every time I check my mail. I dunno why, when I check it with webmail or manually, it claims the mailbox is empty. Where is it coming from ? Why am I cursed ? Why did I still try and help this person ? Why is my life LIKE this ? Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002
You could try http://www.mail2web.com[^] - it's a pop3 webmail interface that'll work with any email account - it might be able to see and thus let you delete the messages that your normal webmail can't -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!