E-Mail Gone Awry
cadieux@suffield-library.org
Sun, 5 Oct 1997 09:08:49 -0400
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 09:08:49 -0400
Message-Id: <3.0.32.19971005091312.007be370@suffield-library.org>
From: cadieux@suffield-library.org
To: Multiple recipients of list <conntech>
Subject: E-Mail Gone Awry
ConnTechers:
On page 8 of the Business section of today's NY Sunday Times there's are
four stories about misdirected e-mail messages, "When E-Mail Strikes the
Wrong Target."
I've had my share of e-mail gaffes too, including one last week when I sent
the same e-mail message to every staff member, not once, but a dozen times.
What's worse the message trickled in over the course of the week, making
it look as though I was sending it again and again and again. Oh, boy.
Joe Cadieux
Below is an extract from today's Times...
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As a first-year associate at a large Wall Street firm, Gilman Miller was so
wrapped up in his work one day that he didn't have time for a two-minute
break to call his girlfriend. He decided to send her an E-Mail message to
let her know that she was on his mind.
"Just thinking of you," he typed. And he sent the message without noticing
that he had mistakenly clicked on two addresses, including one that
dispatched his little billet-doux to all 1,000 of his fellow employees.
In a short time, the phone calls began. Colleagues started poking their
heads into Mr. Miller's office to thank him for expressing his hidden
feelings. The computer messages began arriving too: "I didn't know you
cared," and "I was just thinking of you, too" and "But I don't even know you."
Mr. Miller was instantly famous.
"Almost every response I got was positive," he writes. "I'm just glad I
didn't have the time that day to compose a more personal or risque message."