Damn Protocol
Scenario:
You are invited to a party by email. This person does NOT have the decency to BCC thus you see the entire mail-ee list. You know approximately half of the people invited who roughly correspond to a particular sphere of your life.
Problem:
You don't have the foggiest idea WHO this person is.
Solution:
1. Do I simply go and find out who it was?
2. Do I reply saying, "Who the fuck are you and why do you have my email?"
3. Any suggestions on how I might handle this more diplomatically?
posted by Oblivia @ 11:26 AM
6 Comments:
ask one of the people you know on the email...maybe ?- me, I would just go :) live dangerously
I have asked not one, but TWO people. No idea...I have a sense of who is going to be there but I feel stupid turning up without knowing the host.
It's a bit like signing up for a class 'cause you know half your friends are also taking it...only to realise too late that it's statistics.
Try to get a couple of the people on the list to come with you as a group thing. You can all feel like idiots together if you do not know host. It a party anyway, bound to be free food and drinks.
Michel: the problem is that I don't think its going to fool her. Is it possible that she is actually inviting just about anyone who has ever crossed her email? You know, I've been cc-ed on an email sent to her by someone on the list and then it gets incorporated and so on and so on.
Montrealers are a very trusting people. Are Canadians in general this trusting?
Quelinda: you may be on to something. This could be an interesting experiment. (BTW: do i know you? ;) Welcome!)
Maybe it is a stalker that is trying to suck you all into a web of deceipt and kill you. Oh, that is just the New Yorker in me speaking. Hm....
Don't make me any more paranoid than I already am!
I don't think I'm going to go. Roomie just got a whole whack of Armenian food that we need to plough through on Friday night...woe is me.
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