When a good thing is also a bad thing, but not as bad as the good thing

[Melvil]

...I have pleasure as well as pain as a magazine has just unexpectedly published a feature on my photography......but has also given out the wrong email address to contact me on .

Anyone else had a simultaneous good/bad situation like this?

 

[Keith Oates]

If you tell them they will have to print your details again next month/week so you get two mentions instead of one. Think positive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Then you can sell your story to another magazine as 'My [name of rival magazine] hell' and make even more money... come on, this is the way celebrity is made, get with the program etc...

 

[Melvil]

You guys are sooo right. I've been ignoring the possibilities!

Now...let's see if I can sell a 'magazine editor had steamy sex with me in the printing room and then got my email address wrong' story to The News of the Screws

 

[PaulB]

Me and my son were recently pictured on the back page of a football magazine during the Merseyside derby but the mag has completely sold out and though I've been told by loads of people we're in it (for which we are pleased), we may as well not have been as we haven't seen it. Is that one of they there thingys you were on about?

 

[Kirstie]

Did they refer to your website at all?
Get in touch with them and ask them to publish an erratum. Not much but it's better than nothing.
Or change your email address...

 

[Melvil]

Did they refer to your website at all?
Get in touch with them and ask them to publish an erratum. Not much but it's better than nothing.
Or change your email address...

Tried the latter but no joy - damn you, Yahoo! USA!

 

[Melvil]

But they mentioned my Flickr site, which is better than nothing.

 

[Melvil]

Me and my son were recently pictured on the back page of a football magazine during the Merseyside derby but the mag has completely sold out and though I've been told by loads of people we're in it (for which we are pleased), we may as well not have been as we haven't seen it. Is that one of they there thingys you were on about?

Yeh. Exactly. You know what I mean.

 

[Kirstie]

Alright then, email the wrong email address, explain what has happened, and ask them to forward any queries that arise from the article to you.

 

[Melvil]

Alright then, email the wrong email address, explain what has happened, and ask them to forward any queries that arise from the article to you.

Unfortunately Yahoo will keep the name of one of its regional addresses, e.g: xxxx@yahoo.co.uk and then just make same name unobtainable for its xxxx@yahoo.com address...so no-one has my named address. D'oh! Good idea, though.

 

[Maz]

But they mentioned my Flickr site, which is better than nothing.

Don't know much about flikr, but can you put your email address up on there, if someone wants to contact you?

 

[papercorn2000]

Go round to their offices with a shotgun. That should be a persuasive argument!

 

[Melvil]

Don't know much about flikr, but can you put your email address up on there, if someone wants to contact you?

Aye. But then spammers would have it too! But worth a thought!

 

[Maizie]

Aye. But then spammers would have it too! But worth a thought!

You could put it up there in an only human-readable format, so it's not 'harvestable'. So you could write it on your flickr site as something like:

melvil (at) yahoo (dot) co (dot) uk (please remove spaces and replace the bits in brackets with symbols)

Which should be enough to prevent the automated spam.