email hell

[anivair.livejournal.com]

Say it with me ...

"There is no www in an email address!"

I hate our clients.

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[samwize.livejournal.com]

We commonly have to get our clients to go to our WebX-type server to open a remote session on their machines. Its address does not start with www.

I have actaully come to enjoy letting them type it in wrong. Then I get to scold them with "Did I say to type www in front of [address]?" "Uh...no." "Alright then. Try it again, and this time type what I say." It lets me asse4rt dominance and lets them know that they are idiots right from the get go.

Of course, the best is when they say "MSN says it can't find www.[address]!" "That's because you typed in the search box and not in the address bar like I told you to. And you typed the wrong thing. THIS time, hold down Control and type 'o'. Now type what I tell you in the new box."

Idiots.

[gholam.livejournal.com]

I take it you've never had the pleasure of instructing a user to type in a URL when the user doesn't know the english alphabet. As in, the letters.

[samwize.livejournal.com]

Oh I have. Usually I end up getting them to put someone else on the phone. But most of our non-native englishers know spanish and we can usually work out a way.

[gholam.livejournal.com]

Spanish and english alphabets are mostly identical, that's not much of a problem. There was this one guy a while ago though...

1) Zero computer skills. As in, barely knows how to move a mouse.
2) Bulgarian. Does not speak a word of English, does not even know the letters.
3) Does not speak a word of Hebrew (I'm from Israel).
4) I don't speak a word of Bulgarian.
5) Speaks very broken Russian - the only common point between us, as I'm a native speaker and can KIND OF understand what he means to say.
6) His Windows XP is using Bulgarian UI.

Needless to say, we did not get very far.

[canray.livejournal.com]

I'm a Uniligual (English) Canadian, spreaking to a German native speaker (Admits that he thinks in German), who is translating into German for his Chinese Wife (Who doesn't speak English), who is working on a Win98 Chinese Laptop.

[abstrak-tokatl.livejournal.com]

sometimes there are, it's annoying.

[jecook]

What, you no like-y www@www.sub-ether.net? (Well, actually, that address is a bit anti-social- it is a pipe to the dreaded B1FF filter (aka /dev/null), and hence anything sent to it will never be read. Ever.)

/cry

[hopefulnebula]

I'll see that and raise you people putting their meatspace addresses in where e-mail goes.

[kedemel.livejournal.com]

Oh! Or stupid temps who put "johnunderscoresmith" instead of "john_smith"

[hopefulnebula]

Is that Connor Trinneer I spy in your icon?

Awesome.

[kedemel.livejournal.com]

Da da. Can I steal yours? :D

[hopefulnebula]

Have at it. I don't remember who made it, but it's credited on my icons page.

(edited because I phail at keeping up the Connor iconage)

[kedemel.livejournal.com]

Oy. I'm sorry. I get that all the time :D

[mix-hyenataur.livejournal.com]

I love your icon, what is it? Link?

[anivair.livejournal.com]

Stolen from an artist that I am fond of. I've been using i for ages. Maybe check for him on deviantart? I'll see if I can track it own for you.

[fixerkitty.livejournal.com]

Christ, I've just plowed through a full bottle of Cabernet and that's STILL painful. :/

[jjjiii]

Someday, I'll own my own domain and mail server, and just to fuck with people I'll create some email addresses that DO go www.*@mydomain.tld

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

I do, and I have, and it's fun!

(Especially as my domain name looks like a made-up fake one. People aren't sure whether I'm giving them a valid address or blowing them off.)

[jecook]

I do, I did, and I re-directed it to /dev/null, and then whacked it a loooong time ago due to the spam content.

But to celebrate the occasion, I'll turn it back on, just for tonight. :)

[canray.livejournal.com]

But what about Walter William Willburro who has an account using his initials?

[ateji.livejournal.com]

Recently, the Powers That Be at work printed up brochures with the site for students to access email, registration, and everything else online. The actual URL does not have a www in it, and typing it in brings up a search page. But it has the www on the brochure, because the people who made 'em? Not computer savvy.

Can't wait to get calls about that...

[brownizs.livejournal.com]

You also left out "email addresses are not case sensitive." I chuckle everytime I ask a client for their email, and they go "Its www.lusername.com@whateveremailservice.com".

[onyxrising.livejournal.com]

And if I could count the times I've had a customer insist the entirety of their email address is yahoo.com.