I received an e-mail from a director who is looking for a script and who was told to e-mail the Nicholl Semi-Finalists. He sent a mass e-mail that had all of our e-mail addresses in the TO: field.
After replying with my logline and synopsis, I included a PS about how impersonal it is to send an obvious mass mailing and that not everyone wants their e-mail to be revealed to a bunch of strangers, and that he should BCC in the future.
I mean, maybe that’s not cool of me, but I feel like someone should tell him. Maybe he just doesn’t know about the BCC. And he really should. Because I don’t really mind having the e-mail addresses of my fellow semi-finalists, but they might mind.
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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Cynthia
November 9, 2009 at 6:16 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
And he misspelled synopsis.
ashleyfmiller
November 9, 2009 at 6:19 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Well, he spelled it correctly in Spanish and that seems like his native tongue, so I figured that was OK.
steveonfilm
November 11, 2009 at 1:40 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I had a possible employer send out an e-mail to everyone who didn’t get the job. I was on that list. As were several friends of mine I had no idea were also applying for the job. How do I know? Because they put everyone in the “To:” field just like you described. The list was probably 50 names deep.