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Google says Sorry for Spamming CR-48 Notebook Owners

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Re: Google says Sorry for Spamming CR-48 Notebook Owners

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Post by peregrine »

Non-story. Wake up get 60 emails, delete them all quickly using gmail, never think about it again.

I knew what happened right away and I assume the people who got a CR-48 figured it out quickly as well.

Nicest feature of gmail is that I can quickly and easily using keyboard shortcuts delete all the junk email. Wish outlook 2003 webmail was this simple at work :(

Re: Google says Sorry for Spamming CR-48 Notebook Owners

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Post by orijing »

cosgroveb wrote: post #2

I was really confused when I woke up this morning to find 255* unread emails on my phone. * It seems that Apple uses a single byte to represent app notifications as the true number of unread emails was closer to 300. Edit: thanks

I think you mean "byte" (8 bits) but that's unfortunate...

At least it didn't wrap around to 0, right?

Re: Google says Sorry for Spamming CR-48 Notebook Owners

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Post by bjtitus »

peregrine wrote: post #3

Non-story. Wake up get 60 emails, delete them all quickly using gmail, never think about it again. I knew what happened right away and I assume the people who got a CR-48 figured it out quickly as well. Nicest feature of gmail is that I can quickly and easily using keyboard shortcuts delete all the junk email. Wish outlook 2003 webmail was this simple at work :(

This is definitely true but replace 60 emails with 250. I woke up to my iPad downloading 250 emails and I was definitely a little confused. Not anything to freak out about, though. Especially since those who received them were already testing an early stage operating system on development hardware.

EDIT: Ah. Gmail's threading makes it more like 60 threads.

Re: Google says Sorry for Spamming CR-48 Notebook Owners

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Post by gkelly »

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #7

I opened the first one, clicked "Filter messages like this" and then went back about my day. Was really displeased to see all the whiny brats cursing and screaming and literally making threats because they received some email...

I agree; and it's not like people have never received an email while sleeping before.

Re: Google says Sorry for Spamming CR-48 Notebook Owners

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Post by wyclif »

gkelly wrote: post #8
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #7

I opened the first one, clicked "Filter messages like this" and then went back about my day. Was really displeased to see all the whiny brats cursing and screaming and literally making threats because they received some email...

I agree; and it's not like people have never received an email while sleeping before.

No, but the thing is some people have their device of choice set to emit audio cues when receiving an email. This was 3:30am EST. Fortunately, said device was downstairs.

Re: Google says Sorry for Spamming CR-48 Notebook Owners

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Post by oomkiller »

wyclif wrote: post #9
gkelly wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree; and it's not like people have never received an email while sleeping before.

No, but the thing is some people have their device of choice set to emit audio cues when receiving an email. This was 3:30am EST. Fortunately, said device was downstairs.

And the time matters how? The internet doesn't run on one time zone, it runs on them all. You should never expect to not get an email at night, that's just foolish.
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