This Internet, It Drives By?

Last week I announced a software release to the enterprise mailing list. I promptly get back a one-word reply, mailed directly to me.

From: Grant Street
Organization: A***** L****
To: Mike Hoye 
Subject: Re: BeSDS now supports Thunderbird and Thunderbird ESR.
Return-Path: grants@**.***.au

Unsubscribe

Thanks, Grant.

This morning, I get:

7:14 -!- Irssi: Starting query in mozilla with User6708
07:14 <User6708> F`UCK YOU !!!!!!
10:38 <mhoye> What?
10:38 -!- User6708: No such nick/channel

Ladies And Gentlemen, a tiny fraction of the glorious joys of developing software for people on the internet.

This entry was written by mhoye, posted on March 27, 2012 at 9:47 am, filed under fail, hate, interfaces, lunacy, vendetta. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

3 Comments

  1. Mike Kozlowski
    Posted March 27, 2012 at 10:25 am | Permalink

    I can understand why getting an “unsubscribe” reply would be disheartening, but it seems like a reasonable response from someone who signed up to receive mailings and no longer wants them, and putting the dude’s email address up is a weirdly rude response.

  2. mhoye
    Posted March 27, 2012 at 10:29 am | Permalink

    Directly to me, though? Not even to the mailing list software?

    But, yeah, you’re right; I’ll hyphen it out.

  3. robcee
    Posted March 27, 2012 at 5:51 pm | Permalink

    apparently there was a script kiddie making the rounds on irc this morning. I got one of those private messages too. Still a great way to start the day though.

    Hang in there, Mike! :)