Google says Sorry for Spamming CR-48 Notebook Owners

http://thenextweb.com/google/2011/02/13/google-says-sorry-for-spamming-c4-48-notebook-owners/

by yasmine • 15 years ago

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cosgroveb• 15 years ago

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

cma• 15 years ago

byte

orijing• 15 years ago

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

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

peregrine• 15 years ago

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 :(

bjtitus• 15 years ago

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.

drivebyacct22• 15 years ago

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...

gkelly• 15 years ago

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

wyclif2• 15 years ago

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.

StudyAnimal• 15 years ago

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.

re• 15 years ago

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

Luyt• 15 years ago

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.

numix• 15 years ago

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

Google says Sorry for Spamming CR-48 Notebook Owners

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