On that day, those numbers turned to hieroglyphics, and this whole place just starting shakin’, and that screen- that screen filled up with ‘SYSTEM FAILURE’, see, here, ‘SYSTEM FAILURE, SYSTEM FAILURE’, September 22nd, 2004, the day your plane crashed, it’s real, it’s all bloody real now PUSH THE DAMN BUTTON!
When businesses want to communicate with their customers via e-mail, many send messages with a bogus return address, e.g. “somethinghere@donotreply.com.” The practice is meant to communicate to recipients that any replies will go unread.
But when those messages are sent to an inactive e-mail address or the recipient ignores the instruction and replies anyway, the missives don’t just disappear into the digital ether.
Instead, they land in Chet Faliszek’s e-mail box.
As owner of www.donotreply.com, the Seattle-based programmer receives millions of wayward e-mails each week, including a great many missives destined for executives at Fortune 500 companies or bank customers, even sensitive messages sent by government personnel and contractors.
