Youth08 sent out an e-mail to all participants announcing the event’s venue, date, time as well as the run down of the events. This is a very normal procedure any organizer would do but I guess Youth08 carelessly made a mistake in sending the e-mail without hiding participants e-mail address, leaving total of 396 bloggers e-mails addresses exposed.
Although we often leave our e-mails out on the blog, but there’s still some effort needed to gather most of our (local bloggers) e-mails. Here our e-mails, listed in rows. I personally find this quite uncomfortable. If you do not see what’s the harm of not having your e-mails bcc’ed (Blind Carbon Copy) especially when they are list of people of the same category, well, prepare for spams (which I hope not).
E-mails addresses should be bcc’ed? What’s your thoughts?
Updates #1
A Mini social network has kicked off inside after my first reply-to-all to Youth08, the spam has spread but I already have it thrown in my spam folder
Updates #2
Bloggers are starting replying-to-all, signed with their name and blog url. Will that help blog publicity?
Updates #3 – Youth08 Apologized
Dear Participants,
We are extremely sorry and deeply apologize for sending out the mailers without realizing that it was not in the BCC column. I guess we got over excited to share with you on the updates of the event.
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Comments
earl-ku January 16th, 2008
spam spam spam spam!!!!!!!
ReplyChardy January 16th, 2008
That will be very bad professionalism in work. I am not sure how they want to run this activities.
ReplyDanny Foo January 16th, 2008
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…
ReplyJeff! Lim January 16th, 2008
“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….
ReplyCincauHangus January 16th, 2008
well, there’s 300+ emails to be sold there. =)
ReplyCalvin Gilbert January 16th, 2008
Wow, it has been many years since I have seen anyone do this.
Replyhongkiat January 16th, 2008
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.
ReplyFahmishah January 16th, 2008
this is the first time I got a lot of emails in the same day
Replygaman January 16th, 2008
We still have a long way to go as far as respecting others’ privacy online haven’t we?
ReplyRazlan January 16th, 2008
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!
ReplyAhTim January 16th, 2008
Another big mistake from such big org early this year! :)
–blog for dream–
ReplyPlanet Lowyat January 16th, 2008
Thanks you Youth Malaysia!
Replyzewt January 16th, 2008
oh oh… what a boo boo….
ReplyHinching January 16th, 2008
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
Replyhongkiat January 16th, 2008
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.
ReplyHinching January 16th, 2008
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?
Replylilian January 17th, 2008
HOI CINCAU, saya mau beli. Berapa? 300! Phweet! Mana mau cari.
Replyzaki blogjer January 17th, 2008
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
Replysuanie January 17th, 2008
i/c number exposed?
Replybeen 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.
Friedbeef January 17th, 2008
Sigh…. i’m getting spams already from the list
ReplyZul January 17th, 2008
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.
ReplyJoel January 17th, 2008
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.
Replydanny January 18th, 2008
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 ]“
ReplySteven Wong January 18th, 2008
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.
ReplyKhai January 20th, 2008
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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