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Great Email Disasters Chas Newkey-Burden

Great Email Disasters By Chas Newkey-Burden

Great Email Disasters by Chas Newkey-Burden


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Email is convenient but highly dangerous. With an ill-considered click of the mouse, you can humiliate yourself in front of millions, lose your job or even end up in court. This title brings together over 100 stories of inbox ignominy.

Great Email Disasters Summary

Great Email Disasters by Chas Newkey-Burden

Email is convenient but highly dangerous. With an ill-considered click of the mouse, you can humiliate yourself in front of millions, lose your job or even end up in court. "Great Email Disasters" brings together over 100 of the funniest, scariest and weirdest stories of inbox ignominy. Meet the sheepish stars of the world wide web. These stories will make your toes curl!These stories discuss: the man who emailed a woman he met at a party, telling her: 'This is the part where I throw caution to the wind...Your smile is the freshest of my special memories' - and then sat back in horror as his email was circulated round the world; the vengeful wife who mailed 50 of her husband's most important work contacts from his email address, telling them: 'I've got an extremely small penis that couldn't excite a woman's nostril, let alone anything else'; the numerous couples whose intimate email chats were leaked and read by millions.It also discuss: Jo Moore, the government spin doctor who hit the headlines for her 'good day to bury bad news' e-mail on September 11, 2001. The ex-employee who thought he'd got revenge by wrecking his former company's computer system with a bombardment of emails - but was discovered and ended up in court; the Pentagon officer who accidentally included a Devon schoolgirl on an email list that discussed top-secret matters; the marketing man who wrote an email mocking his employer - and sent the message straight to his boss, plus numerous blogging buffoons, fax failures, terrible telephone calls and so much more...

Great Email Disasters Reviews

"Hilarious...an absolute must" The Big Issue "Great fun...If you enjoy laughing at other people's expense (and who doesn't?) this book makes the perfect read." Attitude "A great piece of holiday reading." PC Pro "Includes a set of rules to avoid an email disaster of your own" Sunday Post

About Chas Newkey-Burden

Chas Newkey-Burden is the author of a number of books including The Reduced History Of Britain. He also contributed to both Crap Towns books. A prolific journalist, he has written for numerous publications including Time Out, The Big Issue, Four Four Two and the Mail On Sunday. He regularly gets himself in enough trouble in the real world without having to worry about emails.

Additional information

GOR001049565
9781844544103
1844544109
Great Email Disasters by Chas Newkey-Burden
Used - Very Good
Hardback
John Blake Publishing Ltd
2007-06-04
256
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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