14 December, 2011
Just a touch more dignitas, pretty please
I don't mind a modicum of informality in business communications. You don't need to write like a 19th century solicitor all the time to demonstrate your earnest professionalism. And I'm in no position to complain, as one who uses jarring shifts of linguistic register frequently as a rhetorical device on this blog.
But there are limits. And this message from the mail server at Yahoo, after I mistyped the domain name in an email address, is too chirpy by a damned sight more than half. Reads like wot it was wrote by coders at the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
Have I won a week's holiday for two inFuckit Phuket, or did my email not get through? Hard to tell, really.
FFS.
But there are limits. And this message from the mail server at Yahoo, after I mistyped the domain name in an email address, is too chirpy by a damned sight more than half. Reads like wot it was wrote by coders at the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
<spoof@oaypal.com>:
Sorry, I wasn't able to establish an SMTP connection. (#4.4.1)
I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long.
Have I won a week's holiday for two in
FFS.
# posted by Edwin Greenwood @ 06:35 
