Should I help the idiot?
Jul. 9th, 2007 04:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frualeydisI am battling with my conscience right now. I just received a booking confirmation for a flight I haven't booked. Some idiot in Stockholm has given my e-mail address when booking on the internet. I've got her phon enumber, it's in the e-mail. Now, should I call her and tell her that maybe, just maybe, she should consider giving her own e-mail address and not some complete stranger's when she books tickets on-line.
The thing is, this happens to me at least once a week. Not the same person, though some people tend to do it a lot. There's for instance one woman in Motala who has ordered CDs, signed upp for singles' activities and applied for an apartment using my e-mail address. For me it doesn't matter, the purchases are of course linked to her identity number and address, not to my e-mail and I can always unsubscribe from crossword-clubs and the like, but it is a bit annoying. There are also others; there's a group of square dancers in Scania who keep sending me e-mails and one district of the Asthma and Allergy society sent me copies of all their e-mails and gave my address to the hotel they tried to book for a conference and the lecturer who was to come to the conference. In those cases I did send e-amils to the concerned people so that they would actually get their hotel and the lecturer wouldn't have to stand alone in the middle of nowhere, waiting for someone to pick him up who never came. And there's lots of answers from different customer's services I've never asked questions to etc, non-official reports from companies (in this case the sender got really snotty and unpleasant just because we suggested that it might be a good idea to check the e-mail address before sending out non-public information)
But in this case I presume that she will contact the travel company if she doesn't get a confirmation, so I don't think it's to call her and tell her about it. Especially since I'm too well behaved to tell her that she's a fucking idiot, which is what I want to do.
Other people complain about spam. I don't like spam either, but at least then I don't have to write e-mails or call strangers to sort out the messes they've made just because they don't know their own bloody e-mail adress If you can't remember your own address you shouldn't be allowed near the internet.
The thing is, this happens to me at least once a week. Not the same person, though some people tend to do it a lot. There's for instance one woman in Motala who has ordered CDs, signed upp for singles' activities and applied for an apartment using my e-mail address. For me it doesn't matter, the purchases are of course linked to her identity number and address, not to my e-mail and I can always unsubscribe from crossword-clubs and the like, but it is a bit annoying. There are also others; there's a group of square dancers in Scania who keep sending me e-mails and one district of the Asthma and Allergy society sent me copies of all their e-mails and gave my address to the hotel they tried to book for a conference and the lecturer who was to come to the conference. In those cases I did send e-amils to the concerned people so that they would actually get their hotel and the lecturer wouldn't have to stand alone in the middle of nowhere, waiting for someone to pick him up who never came. And there's lots of answers from different customer's services I've never asked questions to etc, non-official reports from companies (in this case the sender got really snotty and unpleasant just because we suggested that it might be a good idea to check the e-mail address before sending out non-public information)
But in this case I presume that she will contact the travel company if she doesn't get a confirmation, so I don't think it's to call her and tell her about it. Especially since I'm too well behaved to tell her that she's a fucking idiot, which is what I want to do.
Other people complain about spam. I don't like spam either, but at least then I don't have to write e-mails or call strangers to sort out the messes they've made just because they don't know their own bloody e-mail adress If you can't remember your own address you shouldn't be allowed near the internet.
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Date: 2007-07-09 06:13 pm (UTC)/Eva