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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 wyclif »

oomkiller wrote: post #10
wyclif wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm afraid you just don't get it. I didn't mention the time because I don't think email isn't 24/7. I mentioned it because I think most people don't expect to get 300 notifications all at once. Thanks for playing, though.

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

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Post by re »

StudyAnimal wrote: post #12

I see google deleted the whole group. Is there an archive of the group anywhere? It doesn't seem useful now, but future historians may appreciate being able to browse through the messages.

Email storms are pretty common on any mailing list with wide enough distribution; I kind of doubt there was anything particularly unique about this one, but it is kind of impressive that it hit several hundred messages in the space of 20 minutes at around 1-4am depending on where in the US you live.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_storm

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

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Post by Luyt »

I have a question. I see on that page the following URL:

  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/chrome-notebook-pilot
Recently I see the characters '#!' more often used in URLs. Why? What's the reason behind it? I know that a # in an URL denotes the 'fragment', but what's the advantage of using it in this case? The page to which the URL refers to doesn't even need the browser scroll to a certain part.

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

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Post by numix »

Luyt wrote: post #14

I have a question. I see on that page the following URL: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/chrome-notebook-pilot Recently I see the characters '#!' more often used in URLs. Why? What's the reason behind it? I know that a # in an URL denotes the 'fragment', but what's the advantage of using it in this case? The page to which the URL refers to doesn't even need the browser scroll to a certain part.

It tells Googlebot that the content is crawlable. See http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/getting-started...

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

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

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.

You get a new notification tone for each email? Wow, what phone OS does that?
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