Non-story. Wake up get 60 emails, delete them all quickly using gmail, never think about it again.
I knew what happened right away and I assume the people who got a CR-48 figured it out quickly as well.
Nicest feature of gmail is that I can quickly and easily using keyboard shortcuts delete all the junk email. Wish outlook 2003 webmail was this simple at work :(
This is definitely true but replace 60 emails with 250. I woke up to my iPad downloading 250 emails and I was definitely a little confused. Not anything to freak out about, though. Especially since those who received them were already testing an early stage operating system on development hardware.
EDIT: Ah. Gmail's threading makes it more like 60 threads.
I opened the first one, clicked "Filter messages like this" and then went back about my day. Was really displeased to see all the whiny brats cursing and screaming and literally making threats because they received some email...
No, but the thing is some people have their device of choice set to emit audio cues when receiving an email. This was 3:30am EST. Fortunately, said device was downstairs.
And the time matters how? The internet doesn't run on one time zone, it runs on them all. You should never expect to not get an email at night, that's just foolish.
I'm afraid you just don't get it. I didn't mention the time because I don't think email isn't 24/7. I mentioned it because I think most people don't expect to get 300 notifications all at once. Thanks for playing, though.
I see google deleted the whole group. Is there an archive of the group anywhere? It doesn't seem useful now, but future historians may appreciate being able to browse through the messages.
Email storms are pretty common on any mailing list with wide enough distribution; I kind of doubt there was anything particularly unique about this one, but it is kind of impressive that it hit several hundred messages in the space of 20 minutes at around 1-4am depending on where in the US you live.
Recently I see the characters '#!' more often used in URLs. Why? What's the reason behind it? I know that a # in an URL denotes the 'fragment', but what's the advantage of using it in this case? The page to which the URL refers to doesn't even need the browser scroll to a certain part.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 58.5 ms ] thread* It seems that Apple uses a single byte to represent app notifications as the true number of unread emails was closer to 300.
Edit: thanks
At least it didn't wrap around to 0, right?
I knew what happened right away and I assume the people who got a CR-48 figured it out quickly as well.
Nicest feature of gmail is that I can quickly and easily using keyboard shortcuts delete all the junk email. Wish outlook 2003 webmail was this simple at work :(
EDIT: Ah. Gmail's threading makes it more like 60 threads.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_storm