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Occasionally...just occasionally...I see something, during my surfing and searching, that I figure a site owner would like to know about. Something that, if left unfixed, will continue to bother prospects, just as it was bothering me...
Not that I consider myself to be
definitive guide, but I'm sure you know what I mean. We all like to help a bit, now and then, right?
I was in this e-book site - a very big one, I might add - when suddenly, up pops a blue box with an alert: some sort of "run-time error at line XX - do you want to debug?"...maybe you've seen this sort of thing also?
(And, anyways, why on earth would I want to debug somebody else's program bugs?)
As usual, I punch
"No" button and let it go away. This time, however,
pesky box came back...and back...and back again and again, each time I hit
"No" button.
(By
way, have you ever tried to move your pointer quickly from a pop-up box - as you close it - to
back button of
browser...ya gotta be queeeeck! Better to put your cursor on
"no" button, place
mouse pointer on
back button, then hit
"Enter" key on yer keyboard, and then very quickly click
mouse...you'll get out OK.)
Soon it became very tiresome, not to say annoying, y'know...so I hit
"ContactUs" button and sent off a rocket (a nice, informative one...nothing abusive, OK!) to
webmaster, advising him/her of
problem and maybe they wanna do somethin' about it...just tryin' to help out and all, y'know.
Next time I check
incoming mail,
message I'd sent was bounced back to me, accusing me of spamming their site! Aaargh...what's goin' on here? To say that I was surprised and peeved is...well, hardly surprising, right?
So, I mention this to Sherry, who takes a look at
messages, her face turns a dark red (almost), elbows me outta
way and gets into that website, muttering unner her breath, "Oh, yeah, call me a spammer, huh...just you wait!" Determined now, Sherry searches around that site until she finds an email address with a real name - "Debbie@" was
particular one she finally chose.
After sending her rocket - including copies of emails - we finally get back a response. Well, you guessed it: once again, our email was bounced with
warning "We do not respond to spammers." Obviously,
people behind this website have taken Linda Cox's spamicidal polemic (a deliciously facetious piece designed to be treated with
humour it richly deserves - you can find that article at http://www.LindaCox.com) about spam-haters to heart ... and with a vengeance!