Bang & Olufsen fans spammed senseless
I don't quite know why I find this so amusing:
Subscribers to the UK mailing list of Bang & Olufsen (B&O), the upmarket Hi-Fi firm, were bombarded with six million emails this week. List membes are hopping mad, but B&O blames the problem on flaws with some of its customers’ email systems, rather than any security breach on its part.An email plugging an integrated TV/DVD sent out to the list on Monday (24 January) generated a message storm when it hit buggy Small Business Server 2003 servers. The well-known glitch in email systems of three of the recipients of the message generated a blitz of replicated emails.
Now, both Apple and Bang & Olufsen are high-end luxury product makers, charging a premium to those who like to live the good life, so there are synergies. However, in this case Bang & Olufsen would seem to have a large surplus of email, while .Mac subscribers never really know when they'll be able to have access to email, so it would seem as though a partnership was in order.
Posted by drunkenbatmanJanuary 29, 2005, at 08:38 PM
I started typing up a nasty comment before I realized this was a joke. Are there really that many problems with .Mac? There was some talk on MacFixit a few weeks ago about iDisk problems, but other than that I don't hear much about it.