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

[nja.livejournal.com]

I think a lot of people are used to auto-correction these days, too. I am only just getting round to the idea that I can type "cant" in some contexts and rather than leaving it George Bernard Shaw style, it will be silently corrected. Other people are surprised when that doesn't happen.

[j4.livejournal.com]

I confess I like the iPhone's autocorrection (most of the time it's very good), but I can't trust it completely, not least because it corrects every goddamned instance of "its" to "it's". Grr.

[nja.livejournal.com]

It also corrects "reading" to "Reading" (I'm assuming it's the same software as the iPod Touch, which I love - I have hardly ever played music on it but it's a great portable internet/games/PDA device).

[qatsi.livejournal.com]

a lot of people are used to auto-correction these days

Don't academics still use pine or something? (elm for the adventurous, I suppose)