- Never send email in anger.
- Never let anyone take a photo of you naked.
- Only friend people who are truly friends.
– Heather Champ’s Rules for the Internet
Tag Archives: email
Who’s Afraid of HTML Email?
Anyone who tells you creating HTML email is easy has either never done it, or is lying. Inexperienced designers tend to think, “Oh, no problem, it’s all tables and font tags!” Grizzled veterans, however, know all too well the difficulties of getting anything but the most simple design to render well in a variety of clients.
Email design today is like web design in the early 90′s, complete with nested tables, spacer gifs, and FONT tags galore. Standards support is virtually non-existent, and even simple things like background images and table spacing are handled poorly by some clients.
Want to Sell Coal in Poland?
Hello,
Your resume was found on one of the job sites. We examined your candidacy and want to offer you a position in our company. If your resume changed, please send us an updated version to email, indicated at the end of the letter.My name is Natalie Patton, I am a employee manager in the company Natural Resources Inc.
Briefly about our company: we deal with selling and purchasing of certificate on the coal in Europe. The first license for activity in Poland was provided in 1998. Nowadays, we have our offices and employees all over the world. We work with individual clients, as well as with corporations. Our central office is located in Poland.
We offer ideal conditions of work. All our employees are provided with a whole kit to have the possibility of working in every part of the world. Absolutely gratuitous we grant a laptop (brand Dell, HP or Apple) and mobile phone (brand Blackberry or iPhone), we pay for internet access and mobile communication. Once in a year we grant a 2-week vacation on the resorts of Poland.
We aren’t standing still and that is why having the European market conquered we move on to reach the U.S. one. The primary stage – is to form the staff. And namely you are offered a position in dynamically developing company.
At the stage of forming the staff we offer a possibility of flexible schedule or part-time occupancy.
Annual salary is $125,000. We appreciate well-educated employees; that is why if you have MBA, the raise in the salary is granted. Each certificate of degree is individual that is why the markup must be stipulated with head manager, after being accepted for employment.
With the expansion of the influence of our company in the U.S. market, promotion track is naturally granted to you.
We are always glad to answer all your questions and stipulate the conditions of collaboration. You can get in touch with us by phone (from 8 am till 6 pm, Monday-Friday) or through email in any time, convenient for you. We are looking forward to your answer.
Natalie Patton,
Natural Resources Inc
email address
I just got this spam, and I was cracking up reading it. The broken English is, of course, hilarious in its own right, but here are some of my favorite points:
- They found your resume on “one of the job sites.” No need to be specific, you’ll know which one.
- They’re happy to take your phone call, but don’t provide a phone number.
- Having conquered the European coal market, they’re expanding to the US. So presumably, you’d be selling coal here in the states, but your vacation must be taken in Poland.
Gmail Spam Level Unusually High
Is anyone else seeing a dramatic increase in spam in their gmail account? I typically get between 150-200 spams a day, but the last two days I’ve gotten around 550. The overwhelming majority of them are the postmaster bounce messages, which leads me to suspect someone is using my address in a massive spam campaign.
One of my coworkers is also seeing this on his account, so I was wondering if it was happening to anyone else. The one nice thing is that gmail’s fantastic spam filter isn’t having any trouble – I had three spams in my inbox this morning, and all the rest were properly filtered.
Back on Deck
The first day back in the office after a vacation is always a bit overwhelming. I’ve been in the office for over two hours now, and I’m just now getting all caught up so I can get some work done — and this was for a vacation when everyone else was out of the office, too.
While on break, I didn’t read email or check my feed reader. Upon returning I hardly had any email, but I had over a thousand unread items in google reader.
I wish I had been able to write more blog posts recently, but between the holidays, visiting friends and family, playing video games, and taking care of a sick baby, it just didn’t happen. I’ll be fixing that this week, and the December newsletter will be up by the end of the week.