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

[Xander D Harkness]

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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