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lkh_lashoutsI'm going to apologise for spamming up the comm, but following the saga of the contest is proving to be my soap opera of choice.
URL: http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2008/02/apology.html
Darla's back! I missed Darla! She's in bold! I'm abusing exclamation marks! *headdesk*
Okay, I got asked why didn’t I check the spam filter sooner? I do check the one on my end, on my machine. That one I check every day to make sure that something hasn’t gotten dumped that I don’t want dumped. Which is why I have it set to hold the emails till I dump them.
Yeah, um, great. But this doesn't actually explain anything. Not unless you had the emails sent to a whole other computer that you don't check regularly. Or something. Whut?
I got an email from one of the two people who suggested Ripley that she had done so. But I didn’t have the email. The spam filter that grabbed it was the one on the service we use. Which is where I found six emails. It grabbed six out over 12,000 that were sent. Which is one reason I hadn’t checked it.
I think what she's trying to say is that she got an email from a person asking why their submission wasn't seen, and this led to the discovery of the entries stuck in the spam filter. I should not have to sit there wondering how you can get an email but not get an email so how could she read it if it wasn't there? Unless she's getting emails from the ninjas in her office.
Not to mention, after saying that she checks the filter religiously...now she doesn't? Because the spam filter may well be full of spam? Whut?
Darla goes on to say that she has no idea why those six entries wound up in the spam filter, and speculates that there maybe something about the name "Ripley" that means that it'll be OM NOM NOMMED by the filters...but then she does something totally unexpected. She apologises.
It was my fault for not checking. I do check it. Usually once a month or so and it is rare that anything in there is something useful. Rare enough I check it occasionally, but often enough that I do have it hold them till I delete them personally. I should really have checked it after the contest ended. So totally my fault.
That's great, but what about this whole, "I check my spam filter every day!" as stated above? This is what's making me rub my temples; either you do it, or you don't. Okay, for all I know it could be like I said; two computers, one is Darla's personal and the other is her work computer. But it would be nice to have this mentioned somewhere to avoid such confusion. It'd really, really help if this post were written in oh, say, English.
The two people who suggested Ripley as well as the person who suggested Ridley will receive signed books. Which is what we originally said we would do.
HUZZAH! The original Ridley is gonna get a prize! My faith in humanity hasn't exactly been restored, but now I'm less likely to try and set small animals on fire to make myself feel better. However, this warm, fuzzy feeling is quickly lost:
And one of the two Ripley’s will be in the acknowledgements.
1) An apostrophe does not mean, "oh look! here comes an S!"
2) I'm sorry, but no. If all three are getting prizes, they might as well be in the acknowledgements too. It's two extra names, it won't kill anyone to type them. Again, I have that urge to write a politely irate emailthat will probably get eaten by the spam filters!
We still will have the usually drawing and auctions, if I can get arc’s to so with from the publisher. So for those that didn’t win, you still will have a chance to get a book before the release date.
...I have no idea what's being said here. Anyone, can you please help me translate this? All I can muster is a WHUT?! O_O
Seriously, wtf? This wasn't brain surgery, yet how in the hell could it have gotten so strange and confusing? HOW? All we're really missing is Dr Nick Riviera. (HI DR NICK!)
URL: http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2008/02/apology.html
Darla's back! I missed Darla! She's in bold! I'm abusing exclamation marks! *headdesk*
Okay, I got asked why didn’t I check the spam filter sooner? I do check the one on my end, on my machine. That one I check every day to make sure that something hasn’t gotten dumped that I don’t want dumped. Which is why I have it set to hold the emails till I dump them.
Yeah, um, great. But this doesn't actually explain anything. Not unless you had the emails sent to a whole other computer that you don't check regularly. Or something. Whut?
I got an email from one of the two people who suggested Ripley that she had done so. But I didn’t have the email. The spam filter that grabbed it was the one on the service we use. Which is where I found six emails. It grabbed six out over 12,000 that were sent. Which is one reason I hadn’t checked it.
I think what she's trying to say is that she got an email from a person asking why their submission wasn't seen, and this led to the discovery of the entries stuck in the spam filter. I should not have to sit there wondering how you can get an email but not get an email so how could she read it if it wasn't there? Unless she's getting emails from the ninjas in her office.
Not to mention, after saying that she checks the filter religiously...now she doesn't? Because the spam filter may well be full of spam? Whut?
Darla goes on to say that she has no idea why those six entries wound up in the spam filter, and speculates that there maybe something about the name "Ripley" that means that it'll be OM NOM NOMMED by the filters...but then she does something totally unexpected. She apologises.
It was my fault for not checking. I do check it. Usually once a month or so and it is rare that anything in there is something useful. Rare enough I check it occasionally, but often enough that I do have it hold them till I delete them personally. I should really have checked it after the contest ended. So totally my fault.
That's great, but what about this whole, "I check my spam filter every day!" as stated above? This is what's making me rub my temples; either you do it, or you don't. Okay, for all I know it could be like I said; two computers, one is Darla's personal and the other is her work computer. But it would be nice to have this mentioned somewhere to avoid such confusion. It'd really, really help if this post were written in oh, say, English.
The two people who suggested Ripley as well as the person who suggested Ridley will receive signed books. Which is what we originally said we would do.
HUZZAH! The original Ridley is gonna get a prize! My faith in humanity hasn't exactly been restored, but now I'm less likely to try and set small animals on fire to make myself feel better. However, this warm, fuzzy feeling is quickly lost:
And one of the two Ripley’s will be in the acknowledgements.
1) An apostrophe does not mean, "oh look! here comes an S!"
2) I'm sorry, but no. If all three are getting prizes, they might as well be in the acknowledgements too. It's two extra names, it won't kill anyone to type them. Again, I have that urge to write a politely irate email
We still will have the usually drawing and auctions, if I can get arc’s to so with from the publisher. So for those that didn’t win, you still will have a chance to get a book before the release date.
...I have no idea what's being said here. Anyone, can you please help me translate this? All I can muster is a WHUT?! O_O
Seriously, wtf? This wasn't brain surgery, yet how in the hell could it have gotten so strange and confusing? HOW? All we're really missing is Dr Nick Riviera. (HI DR NICK!)
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Date: 2008-02-08 06:27 pm (UTC)Darla writes confusing gibberish. So does LKH. Both are hilarious in their own way.
Yet, they make my head want to hit my desk repeatedly.
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Date: 2008-02-08 07:37 pm (UTC)