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Google says Sorry for Spamming CR-48 Notebook Owners

16 points by yasmine 16y ago

cosgroveb 16y 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 16y ago
  byte
- orijing 16y ago
  I think you mean "byte" (8 bits) but that's unfortunate... At least it didn't wrap around to 0, right?
peregrine 16y 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 16y 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.
drivebyacct2 16y 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 16y ago
  I agree; and it's not like people have never received an email while sleeping before.
  - wyclif 16y 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.
    - oomkiller 16y ago
      And the time matters how? The internet doesn't run on one time zone, it runs on them all. You should never expect to not get an email at night, that's just foolish.
      - wyclif 16y ago
        I'm afraid you just don't get it. I didn't mention the time because I don't think email isn't 24/7. I mentioned it because I think most people don't expect to get 300 notifications all at once. Thanks for playing, though.
    - drivebyacct2 16y ago
      You get a new notification tone for each email? Wow, what phone OS does that?
StudyAnimal 16y 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 16y 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_storm
Luyt 16y 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 16y ago
  It tells Googlebot that the content is crawlable. See http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/getting-started.html http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/getting-started...

16 points by yasmine 16y 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 16y ago
byte
orijing 16y ago
I think you mean "byte" (8 bits) but that's unfortunate... At least it didn't wrap around to 0, right?

peregrine 16y 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 16y 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.

drivebyacct2 16y 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 16y ago
I agree; and it's not like people have never received an email while sleeping before.
- wyclif 16y 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.
  - oomkiller 16y ago
    And the time matters how? The internet doesn't run on one time zone, it runs on them all. You should never expect to not get an email at night, that's just foolish.
    - wyclif 16y ago
      I'm afraid you just don't get it. I didn't mention the time because I don't think email isn't 24/7. I mentioned it because I think most people don't expect to get 300 notifications all at once. Thanks for playing, though.
  - drivebyacct2 16y ago
    You get a new notification tone for each email? Wow, what phone OS does that?

StudyAnimal 16y 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 16y 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_storm

Luyt 16y 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 16y ago
It tells Googlebot that the content is crawlable. See http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/getting-started.html http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/getting-started...