Comments on: Why, hello everyone in the world who makes Facebook apps

By: [The Far Edge] » @TwitterHR For Future Reference, Use BCC When Rejecting Applicants

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:01:14 +0000

[...] the first company to mix up the BCC and CC fields. RockYou has made similar mistakes in the past, repeatedly CCing a full list of its advertisers and developers for all to see (much to their chagrin). But [...]

By: @TwitterHR For Future Reference, Use BCC When Rejecting Applicants

@TwitterHR For Future Reference, Use BCC When Rejecting Applicants — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:44:13 +0000

By: ArticleSave :: Uncategorized :: RockYou Continues To Combine Spam With Stupidity

ArticleSave :: Uncategorized :: RockYou Continues To Combine Spam With Stupidity — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:03:44 +0000

[...] that creates Facebook Applications. The problem was that they cc’d everyone, creating a firestorm of angry (and sometimes funny) feedback. RockYou basically published a complete list of advertisers and developers working on the Facebook [...]

By: george

george — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:42:00 +0000

I once got a promotion because my boss did that stupid email thing and was fired

By: RockYou Continues To Combine Spam With Stupidity | Webtrendblog.com

RockYou Continues To Combine Spam With Stupidity | Webtrendblog.com — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:20:22 +0000

[...] VP Business Development Ro Choy apologized in the comments to our previous post, saying “We take privacy of all our partners very [...]

By: Nettlive.com » Blog Archive » RockYou Continues To Combine Spam With Stupidity

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:55:21 +0000

By: RockYou Continues To Combine Spam With Stupidity | Webtrendblog.com

RockYou Continues To Combine Spam With Stupidity | Webtrendblog.com — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:42:36 +0000

By: RockYou Continues To Combine Spam With Stupidity

RockYou Continues To Combine Spam With Stupidity — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:10:25 +0000

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vishal — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:35:16 +0000

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By: Blake Newman, dc web designer

Blake Newman, dc web designer — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:40:45 +0000

What gets me is the people who Reply All to bitch about the people who Reply All or the people who Reply All to complain about the guy/gal who put everybody in the cc: field in the first place. Even worse are the guys/gals who Reply All only to say, “remove me from this list.”

By: RockYou Shocks Everyone | Widgets Lab

RockYou Shocks Everyone | Widgets Lab — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:35:34 +0000

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By: RockYou opens up email ids of everyone in the world who makes Facebook Apps – unintentionally | Startup Meme

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:11:21 +0000

[...] TechCrunch has a nice scoop, that RockYou sent an email to their entire existing and future advertising partners. The email was normal stuff except for the fact that it had the email addresses been stuffed in the CC list. Which of course made everything visible for everyone on the list. The result was a barrage of email responses again to everyone from almost everyone on the list. Mike has even picked up his best reply-all, see it below. [...]

By: Zach Allia

Zach Allia — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:11:07 +0000

I am upset my reply didn’t make the top.

By: lolhead

lolhead — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:01:29 +0000

you certainly need to something, trim it down boy

By: lolhead

lolhead — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:58:26 +0000

still a shit comment

By: lolhead

lolhead — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:55:56 +0000

yeah Mr Mike ur style has certainly picked up, i’m actually reading the comments more to find your cut downs. go on, say something to me

By: lolhead

lolhead — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:53:56 +0000

hear hear cap obvious, i like your style, mike, get with the program

By: lolhead

lolhead — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:52:37 +0000

stop talking about it, and just get on with it

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:21:26 +0000

maybe i should start doing yoga or something.

By: normal

normal — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:11:15 +0000

Absolutely. This happens all the time at the gigantic media company that I work for. It’s amazing. Of course, everyone decides to reply-all with their comments, which starts a chicken fight.

Matt, you gonna get on that? I’d download that Outlook plugin.

By: huh

huh — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:03:46 +0000

“to insure that this never happens again”

Maybe you won’t do it again because you will get the pink slip soon.
I hope you had fun, though.

By: Asian Century

Asian Century — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:24:12 +0000

It’s *way* more embarrassing to get a virus email from your point man on the VC firm that funded you, because he clicked on a file titled “Anna Kournikova nude pictures”.

By: TC-Comments: The Game

TC-Comments: The Game — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:30:31 +0000

Great story. You know you’re dealing with a rookie when usage of bcc is overlooked. Anyone that needs a reminder from their email program is just a newb as is anyone that uses web-based email normally. Outlook, Apple mail, or Thinderbird, they rock and are super-responsive in the UI dept.

By: toronto34

toronto34 — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:55:38 +0000

Good on you Ro, there are not enough people in this world that actually take accountability for their actions. Cheers.

By: toronto34

toronto34 — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:52:32 +0000

back in 1995 when internet and email were still relatively new, we were in an undergrad commerce session and learning how listserve could send an email to everyone on the class list. My friend was not paying attention and thought it would be funny to email me (we are both male) and typed Subject: Why? Content: “are you such a c**t?” About 20 seconds later he realized what he had done with the glares from females in the room, the snickering of guys and the FEMALE professor was about to open his email because it appeared under a couple of others on the overhead projector from which we were learning.

He ran from the room and the next day was called into the Dean’s office, blamed ME for instigating (we had been sitting there just talking) and got off the hook (no I wasn’t in any trouble).

In fact….. the other day I got an email from an investment advisor I met with and much of the newsletter had to do with confidentiality and how to protect yourself… you know where I am going with this…. and it was CC’d to all of his current and prospective clients!