test please delete

[TheFaQQer]

The person who brought her in is leaving.

Chance for "promotion" then

[cojak]

The person who brought her in is leaving.

And I'm the only contractor at my level. I suspect that the work I've been doing will be kicked quietly into touch.

My sponsor isn't the most popular person on the Programme...

[NickFitz]

We got the Chef Analytics outgoing mail queue sorted out, whereupon it sent me nearly 12,000 emails all at once

This filled my mailbox until I deleted 37,000 emails sent by another automated system over the last few months

Once the dust had settled, it transpired that, as I'd configured the test emails with my ClientCorp address for both sender and receiver, Exchange had sent me hundreds of emails telling me it couldn't deliver hundreds of emails from me to me because the mailbox was full

[BrilloPad]

We got the Chef Analytics outgoing mail queue sorted out, whereupon it sent me nearly 12,000 emails all at once

I used to do things like that. Except I would send 120,000 emails to people I wanted to annoy!

[TheFaQQer]

I used to do things like that. Except I would send 120,000 emails to people I wanted to annoy!

Now it's just 76912 posts

[mudskipper]

I used to do things like that. Except I would send 120,000 emails to people I wanted to annoy!

I cocked up some escalation code, and sent test emails to the CEO at clientCo.

[TheFaQQer]

I cocked up some escalation code, and sent test emails to the CEO at clientCo.

When I was at Marconi, the head of HR was on the mailing list that got notified when someone got made redundant.

They put in a change request because "Denise doesn't like getting these notifications" when they laid off 1000 people a week for a few weeks.

(Answer - take her off the flipping mailing list then!)

[NickFitz]

I was at a small ClientCo a while back where this chap asked me to modify a monitoring script for various of their client websites that sent SMS notifications. He wanted it to resend them every five minutes - I think some people had been a bit lax about responding to callouts, and he wanted to give them a kick in the arse, as the notifications wouldn't stop until whatever was causing the sites to be down was fixed.

He then went to the Lake District for a few days, staying in a cottage where he couldn't get a signal. Also, he was on the list of those receiving the notifications.

Early that Sunday, a server went belly-up at about three in the morning. The on-call chap responded promptly, but it was a bit worse than just rebooting stuff or whatever, and it took several hours before the multiple sites could be brought back up; and during that time, the monitoring system was sending an SMS for each of the sites that was down, every five minutes.

The first the bloke who'd got me to make the change knew about any of this was when he and his wife came down from the cottage to the nearest town for lunch the next day, when suddenly his phone went berserk receiving an absolute torrent of queued SMS messages. Apparently it took nearly an hour for them all to come through, and of course he had to delete them all as well

As soon as he got back off holiday, he got me to change the script back to the way it used to be

[BrilloPad]

Now it's just 76912 posts

tpd is getting really b1tchy these days! First suity - now me.

Clearly I need to up the drivel rate...

[Pondlife]

A french chap didn't know what number to put into the field for the number to be called if there was a problem so he filled it with 9s. This was a test system. Plod wasn't impressed