[Gllug] How do they manage it? (IT recruitment agencies)

[Simon Bunker]

Even if attachments aren't that good a far, far , FAR worse crime is HTML
emails. Nasty, nasty, nasty.... I've seen some 500Kb messages just from the
HTML to put nice indents for the replies in, whereas the message is only 7Kb
at most!

Simon
http://www.rendermania.com/
UIN 11123737

> I have just received another spam (Oh gosh they must have got a CV of
> mine from somewhere)
>
> I notice however that a lot of IT recruitment companies are sending
> blank emails with word attachments with the email message within. I
> guess they must have done a mail merge using Exchange 5.5
>
> 'TS European aims to support IT professionals and IT Companies in
> extending their search Europe wide for the right individual or
> opportunity that can help them to achieve their goals. We offer a highly
> personal, quality service which reflect our company values of honesty
> and integrity.'
>
> I can suggest to them that no IT professional would touch them.
>
> I also got a letter from my accountant today, he screwed up and sent me
> a word doc with some lovely logos, and unfilled data fields.  The email
> was in excess of 500kb and had no message.  I took a screen shot of it
> and sent a jpg back which was a quarter a size of his original message ;-)
>
> I was wondering what most people do to tackle this kind of stupidity?
>
> I can only imagine that this will worsen with .NET and stuff.
>
> Cheers
> Xander


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