Some things just don't connect.

[jacobine.livejournal.com]

Email I just received from one of my users, located at a small, VPN-connected site in Corpus Christi:

We are currently experiencing network problems. No one in the office is able to get on it right now. We tried rebooting but it didn't work.

She emailed this to me. Emailed it!

Of course, given that when we had an exchange server crash and had our email backed up for two days we had people emailing us to complain their email was slow or not working, I shouldn't be surprised, should I?

Comments

[boredevilperson.livejournal.com]

Lots of times I'll get a flood of e-mails from a location that was down for a few minutes saying that the connection is down.

What they do is they send the message and it sits in the outbox until the connection comes up.

That's something I'd probably start to do but I'd realize the error in my ways and remove it before it went out. ;-)

[jacobine.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, I know how they do it. It's just I don't quite see where they think 'Oh, I can't get connection, let's /send an email/ rather than call....'

Granted, our email admin did tell me that one of the PC techs once argued with him that the line at his site was down. Over IM.

[boredevilperson.livejournal.com]

ROTFL!!!!

That's a conversation where immediatly I'd say "How do you think Instant Messaging works? If you don't have a connection then you can't IM!"