An exceedingly poor (if unlikely) April Fool's prank

[urocyon]

Here's something I just noticed in my inbox, with no subsequent correction to indicate that it was a typo. Talk about standards of service slipping...

Maintenance Announcement
Date: 04/01/04 06:23 am
From: postmaster@i-plus.net
To: *****@i-plus.net

Dear Omega Communications Customer,

As an on-going part of our efforts to provide you with the best service possible, Omega Communications will be upgrading some of the equipment in the south-west Virginia-area. The upgrade will take place on March 30, 2004 between 10am and 2pm . During this time, you may experience intermittent outages in your ability to connect to the internet, browse the web, and/or download email.

If you have any questions or concerns, please call our 24-hour Customer Care Department at 1-800-290-0461 and a technician would be more than glad to answer them.

Sincerely,

Omega Communications, Inc.

Comments

[megamole.livejournal.com]

Close your tags ;-)

[urocyon-c.livejournal.com]

Yes, dear.:P I just took a look at how it displayed. The icky markup (in LJ Land, at least) turned out to be the angle brackets in the mail headers, which I'd overlooked and have now removed. Feh.