You know,
I MUST have had an ancestor spit in the eye of a camel or something.
OK, I sent it AGAIN...
DAMMIT, DAMMIT, DAMMI! LOL....
Squire- FOOW Re-issue News
I just got this:
Hi Scott,
Just to let you know what is going on -
I will be posting updated information on chrissquire.com and myspace regarding how to order a signed copy of Fish Out of Water Bonus cd/dvd.
This product will be available at the end of July. Check for updated information around the end of next week.
Thanks for your interest.
Regards,
Chris Squire
Hi Scott,
Just to let you know what is going on -
I will be posting updated information on chrissquire.com and myspace regarding how to order a signed copy of Fish Out of Water Bonus cd/dvd.
This product will be available at the end of July. Check for updated information around the end of next week.
Thanks for your interest.
Regards,
Chris Squire
"Knowledge is Power"
The luxury of having infinite email accounts from which to send has enabled me to do a test.
There are 87, count them, 87 different and unique auto-responses that are produced by this email response bot, in response to a test body of identical messages sent from 1000 different email addresses here today using an email script I wrote.
Yep, it is a bot. This is NOT a personal or original response from a real warm body. Not Chris Squire, nor anyone else.
I must hand it to the programmers of this bot. It is a well-done and well-crafted pseudorandom response bot. Its intent is certainly to make people think they are getting a personal response from someone, Chris or otherwise. Their intent must be to have further promotion done using Fora like this, by achieving an illusion and to have folks compare notes and remark that since each response was different then this thus must be a real personal response from someone....
I am hoping that someone will get a real response from Chris, but I can tell you that they always start repeating, there are no more than 87 of them, and that some actually appear to be realistic personal responses from Chris himself.
That part I don't like - not after having received 318 responses out of the 1000 test batch that appear real but are identical to different test addresses.
Next is the repeat testing, which will probably show that once a set number of messages are received from the same email addy, that the response changes further to appear even more real, with replies using parsed portion of the "from" address to make it appear that one's name is being used in the reply in a personal fashion.
There are 87, count them, 87 different and unique auto-responses that are produced by this email response bot, in response to a test body of identical messages sent from 1000 different email addresses here today using an email script I wrote.
Yep, it is a bot. This is NOT a personal or original response from a real warm body. Not Chris Squire, nor anyone else.
I must hand it to the programmers of this bot. It is a well-done and well-crafted pseudorandom response bot. Its intent is certainly to make people think they are getting a personal response from someone, Chris or otherwise. Their intent must be to have further promotion done using Fora like this, by achieving an illusion and to have folks compare notes and remark that since each response was different then this thus must be a real personal response from someone....
I am hoping that someone will get a real response from Chris, but I can tell you that they always start repeating, there are no more than 87 of them, and that some actually appear to be realistic personal responses from Chris himself.
That part I don't like - not after having received 318 responses out of the 1000 test batch that appear real but are identical to different test addresses. Next is the repeat testing, which will probably show that once a set number of messages are received from the same email addy, that the response changes further to appear even more real, with replies using parsed portion of the "from" address to make it appear that one's name is being used in the reply in a personal fashion.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, and sit in with the band whenever you can, to keep your chops up!
The first response was certainly like that, Elys. However, I did get a second e-mail independently that answered some very individual comments I made in my initial e-mail to that address. It is unlikely that a bot was able to respond with the message I got the second time round which did include the original body of my e-mail, unlike the first response.
I, for one, do believe that Chris, or at the very least, his wife, did in fact respond personally the second time.
I, for one, do believe that Chris, or at the very least, his wife, did in fact respond personally the second time.
More likely that, in my as-yet untested multiple email from the same address case, that it starts to get farmed out to a "call center" of folks that do answer emails personally, on Chris' behalf.
This is what happens, for example, when Mr and Mrs America send a letter to the President. A bevy of workers in one wing sit all day long and answer those letters personally, many thousands a day, as they have for at least fifty years now, and each letter response goes out under the (bulk reproduced) signature of the President, but in reality he never sees or signs them himself. They do make it seem as if he has, though, you'd never know...
There are dozens of companies in the industry who do the same for all comers, including promotions like this one. We have done them in the past ourselves for sports heroes and their teams. Just not a bot with this many different pseudorandom responses before.
I do hope you really did get Chris Squire dropping by and answering a few of these himself, including yours. Anything is possible
But the odds of it really being him and not one of hundreds of call center workers is astronomically small....
This is what happens, for example, when Mr and Mrs America send a letter to the President. A bevy of workers in one wing sit all day long and answer those letters personally, many thousands a day, as they have for at least fifty years now, and each letter response goes out under the (bulk reproduced) signature of the President, but in reality he never sees or signs them himself. They do make it seem as if he has, though, you'd never know...
There are dozens of companies in the industry who do the same for all comers, including promotions like this one. We have done them in the past ourselves for sports heroes and their teams. Just not a bot with this many different pseudorandom responses before.
I do hope you really did get Chris Squire dropping by and answering a few of these himself, including yours. Anything is possible
But the odds of it really being him and not one of hundreds of call center workers is astronomically small....
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, and sit in with the band whenever you can, to keep your chops up!
None the less it is still pretty cool to open your in box and find a message from C&S Squire..auto response or not..it still made my 7/7/07!!!!!
May you always work like you don't need money;
May you always love like you've never been hurt;
and may you always dance like there's nobody watching.
Jack Canfield
May you always love like you've never been hurt;
and may you always dance like there's nobody watching.
Jack Canfield
-
just_bassics
- Intermediate Member
- Posts: 1244
- Joined: Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:12 am
Auto response is okay with me. especially if it means that Chris is out recording or playing music. At least he did respond professionally.
Anyway, all I know is that this week I'm travelling to England and it started with a email addressed to me and signed by Chris Squire! That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
Anyway, all I know is that this week I'm travelling to England and it started with a email addressed to me and signed by Chris Squire! That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
You can never own too many guitars!