spam spam spam spam!!!!!!!

That will be very bad professionalism in work. I am not sure how they want to run this activities.

ROFL! I’m joining in the conversation. :P

Anyway, I had a feeling you’d be posting this Hong Kiat. Now wondering if I should too later. Hmm…

“carelessly”? or “stupidly”, “ignorantly”? up till today, some people still don’t understand the concept of email, spam, and other related stuff…

I’ve had to explain this sort of stuff to soome folks repeatedly, but guess what? They still repeat the same mistakes over and over again….

well, there’s 300+ emails to be sold there. =)

Wow, it has been many years since I have seen anyone do this.

Have I just turned the list into a monster by replying-to-all. It’s already a mini social network inside now, but I hope it makes these bloggers mingle better that day of the event.

For those who try to promote their own websites, I think that’s not going to gain your traffic, but instead, hate.

this is the first time I got a lot of emails in the same day

[...] mass email from the organization. The sad predicament Youth Malaysia have themselves in now is they exposed 396 bloggers. I got the figure from HongKiat as I was just too lazy to start counting the number of email [...]

We still have a long way to go as far as respecting others’ privacy online haven’t we?

I committed the same mistake before, and made the effort to transfer all email addresses under my group to a generic mailing list. Yahoo! Groups or Google Group will be an easy choice. You get to protect your member privacy, and most importantly avoid embarrassment like this!

Another big mistake from such big org early this year! :)

–blog for dream–

Thanks you Youth Malaysia!

oh oh… what a boo boo….

Hongkiat: It was ‘brilliant’ of you to jumpstart the ‘mini social network’. I noticed that you have attempted to pixelate/blur the emails in your screenshot above. It has failed terribly as I can still make out the emails of some participants. Kindly either remove the whole screenshot or do a better of job of protecting people’s emails.

Hinching

Your single-quoted brilliant sounds like you are pointing finger at the first person who took a can of coke from overturn coca-cola lorry. The fact is this, the bigger the impact is, the better Youth08 will remember it. Can you be certainly sure that if I don’t initiate this, you will not start wondering one day after Youth08 why you’re getting all sorts of unnecessary emails?

No problem if the pixelate is still readable, as long as it’s not in text. Facebooks friends e-mail are not pixelated, but in image format. A lot of bloggers still leave their e-mail on their blog. So that means your e-mails are still exposed but un-scrapable, and collecting them will be tedious. If you want to start making out the emails from the pixalated list or anyone wanna grab emails by blog-hoping ; by all means.

Hongkiat: I do apologize for the earlier harsh remark. After all, a person picking up a can from an overturn cola-cola lorry might have the best intentions of not letting anything go to waste.

Nonetheless, I’ve always felt that there was a better alternative then repeating what Youth08 just to prove a point. Through this blog entry for example is a great way to start.

Emails are probably the least of our worries I reckon. What if IC numbers are exposed next due to another over-excitement?

HOI CINCAU, saya mau beli. Berapa? 300! Phweet! Mana mau cari.

[...] Worse, the emails send by YouthMAlaysia crew didn’t hide the receivers’ email address. In fact, all participants’ email addresses have been exposed. [...]

Ahah, it might be a mistake by the organizer, but I just don’t understand the mentality of this blogger participating in so called Dotcom Youth search who should behave like ethical blogger, but instead of that, they’re like spammer, taking every single opportunity to promote their blog and service

IMHO, I don’t think they even qualify to be accepted into the competition

i/c number exposed?
been there done that
was seriously angry, but apparently the other party who exposed the i/c no alongside my full name and blog URL didn’t think it was that serious.

Sigh…. i’m getting spams already from the list

Zaki wrote exactly what I had wanted to say. While Youth Malaysia crew will have a long day to remember for their mess, it’s equally embarrassing to see that the spammers are those whose websites were nominated for an award.

Hey guys.

On behalf of the organizing committee I deeply apologize for the slip-up on our end. Our team got over-excited in the course of blasting out the emails.

For those who will be present at the awards ceremony tomorrow, all the best!

Apologies once again.

Lucky for them this is Malaysia, if they were in the US this might have costly. A fat lawsuit might have landed…

AAA Malaysia, land of “[ What ever you want to put ]“

I hope they will do a better job on 2nd & 3rd day. After all, it is really an unforgettable experience for them to run a big show.

kalau dia betul2 appreciate blogger, dia akan hantar special email one by one.. bukan mass email.. kalau call diorang boleh buat, kenapa email tak boleh.. sampai jadi masalah cipan macam ni….

kalau mass email je, berat sangat aku nak gi.. dah la call cakap cam cina mabuk..

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