Posted on 12/28/2011 7:27:26 PM PST by Enchante
7:02 p.m. | Updated The New York Times mistakenly sent an e-mail on Wednesday to more than eight million people who had shared their information with the company, erroneously informing them that they had canceled home delivery of the newspaper.
The Times Company, which initially mischaracterized the mishap as spam, apologized for sending the e-mail.
(Excerpt) Read more at mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Scared a bunch of crossword puzzlers! For Nothing! :)
Hi ... my name is Pinch ... we have been laying off anyone with brains around this joint for the past 25 years ... now the best we have left is a couple of morons including myself ... as a result, things like this happen all the time ... sorry.
I got those emails, and I’ve never had a subscription to the Times. Even years and years ago when I read it I bought it at the newsstand.
Oh well, it’s actually reassuring to know they were real, even if they were mistakes!
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