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What’s up with this “do not reply to this email” thingy!

Posted on 19 March 2006 by Lord Brar

While reading Sam Hastings’ Blog today, I came across a rant he had made there — Do not reply to this email.

Even I agree that this thing sucks! Well, the most common justification given for this is that the number of bounces because of invalid emails that you can get can make things really messy.

Haven’t these people heard of filtering rules? Or, perhaps they could use autoresponders to tell people to send the message to some other address.

Hey folks, what if I tell ya that you might very well be losing clients cos of this one folly. And, making your contact information hard to find is oh so unusable. Don’t forget that internet is made of humans only, not bots!

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This is a viral video from Youtube that is getting a lot of attention.

I will let the author set the scene:

It was back in Oct 2005.

My wedding was about a month to go and I decided to make a memorable event for my future wife. But, I and she were working and due to preparation of wedding, I didn’t have enough budgets for expensive proposal. While I was considering for the event, I remembered what she said in the past. “Wow it would be great if I can get a chance to go in the room with full of yellow post it just like Sang Sang Plus” (Sang Sang Plus is one of the famous talk show (TV program) in Korea and they prepare a room with full of yellow post it – questions from fans to famous celebrity)

I wrote all the happy memories that I had with my wife in 5,940 post it. It took me 4 days & 5 nights to write everything and post it in the bathroom. (I tried main living room first, but, due to surface of wallpaper, I had to change the place) Once we back from honeymoon, we took all the post it off and kept it in the box until now.