Bloke calls

[j4]

This was sent to webmaster:

I enclose an email from the telecoms people. It
is virtually illiterate: is it real?? And why
cant you sort out these sutomated calls that are
so irritating?...please! AD.

Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:23:23 +0100

Good Morning

You're Administrator will have to officially
request the number change.
I'm afraid there are far too many company's doing
cold calling we can not
bloke them all and they regularly change the
outgoing number. We only bloke
calls in serious cases such a threatening and
abusive calls.

Best Regard
Telecoms

I did laugh at "bloke calls", but note that 'AD' (who also can't type, doesn't understand punctuation, and for some reason thinks webmaster is the person to contact about getting a phone fixed) is a professor.

Comments

[fanf]

Here the webmaster team get a load of email that's less than relevant because their email address appears at the bottom of many pages, since they're more or less responsible for the content or at least for publishing it.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Indeed, we had a lot of that at MIS. 8-)

We don't do that so much here, though (there isn't always an obvious contact email on a page, this is a known problem, having a link to wm would probably be better [though we'd get more garbage] and having a link to helldesk would be even better) & it's not clear which web page the user would have come from anyway.