Press release approval system FAIL

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Cath@VWXYNot?

The email idiocy continues…
For reasons relating to an announcement about a joint California-Canada cancer stem cell funding initiative, I subscribe to all email lists at the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine.
Every mailing list will inevitably result in a mix of useful and useless emails, but today’s message was more useless than most:


From: CIRM Press Releases [[email protected]]; on behalf of; CIRM ListServe [[email protected]]
To: [email protected]
Subject: don’t approve
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Message: Here’s a test. Please don’t approve!
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Oops.

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6 Responses to Press release approval system FAIL

  1. Richard P. Grant says:
    January 30, 2009 at 1:19 am

    Oh good grief. The tales I could tell.

  2. Bob O'Hara says:
    January 30, 2009 at 8:32 am

    Well I disapprove.

  3. Richard Wintle says:
    January 30, 2009 at 2:53 pm

    Quick! Hit “approve”! Hit “approve”!
    That’ll teach ’em.

  4. Cath Ennis says:
    January 30, 2009 at 3:40 pm

    Richard G, any tales you’re able to share?
    Bob, I have to admit that when I scanned my inbox by subject line, I did wonder who I’d pissed off, and why…
    Richard W, I doubt there was that much thought behind it! I hope no-one got fired, because it gave me a good laugh.

  5. Richard Wintle says:
    February 1, 2009 at 3:31 am

    I’m sure there’s a good joke hiding in here about not approving of stem cell research.
    I’m equally sure that I don’t know what it is, though.

  6. Cath Ennis says:
    February 2, 2009 at 1:37 am

    “New fundamentalist Christian marketing manager bad for business at CIRM?”
    No, I don’t know either.

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