If you recieved a one-word email from someone you knew that just said “test” – how would you respond?
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Don’t think about it too much, just imagine that an email drops into your inbox, you open it up, and it just says “test”. And it’s from someone that you know. What would your response be?
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The test worked
You know the answer from me!
Copy a bounce back email and send it back.
just press reply to start another random thread because i’m too lazy to press new message and then click your address of course.
Is it one of those cool jokes that does something special if you forward it on to 34 other people?
I’d delete it and pretend it never worked.
yep…..
…icles?
The geese fly South for the winter.
I repeat.
The geese fly South for the winter.
Reply with “failed”, of course.
I ought to have replied with “failed”, but instead I replied with “worked”. Oops.
Type ‘reply,’ followed by the e-mail I was going to send anyway.
I’d delete it. If the sender wanted a response then they should have said so. Who has time to waste on that kind of thing?? Honestly, how people have the time to write, let alone read, all those blog things is beyond me….
Ignore it and hope it goes away
…card !
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/testcards/images/800/testcardf.html
get bent
Oddly enough this very thing happened to me just last week. I seem to remember I replied, very briefly.
Depends on who it was I suppose. If it was someone I was currently in contact with it would be “huh?”, someone I hadn’t spoken to in ages it would be “Yup, still alive!” and if it was one of my students it would be “Wednesday.”
I just deleted it – was that wrong?
I’d assume, quite correctly, that you had F**k All better to do with your time than to waste the time of your friends(& family)!
I’m still confused…
Was the whole point of that email just because you were bored and wanted a) something to do, b) a blog topic?!?
Clearly you’re not being given enough work to do!
i reply with smileys and then spend ages pondering why everything’s gone a bit arial!
ease
which, incidentally was on a driving instructors car I saw driving around Guildford the other day!
My answer would be “eh?’ and I’m not even Canadian.
Kris, I should have thought of that given my nationality, eh?
If they didn’t specifically ask for a reply, I’d bin it. If it was me, I’d either say “Test – please ignore.” or “Test – please reply.”
Well … I responded with “received loud and clear” .. did I fail ..?!
check one two, check one two, testing, testing, check one two
i’d say yes, it’s working – and when are you going to buy me a beer
PS am green with envy about your last post. I would give anything for carte blance to eat more! but hey – you knew i’d say that, right?
ah i see.. knew i should have checked on here before replying!
no four letter words for my pristine inbox please
Well. That’s quite a response for such an innocuous question, but it was only after I’d sent out an email the other day just saying “test” to most (but not all) people in my address book, that I thought “Ooh, this is quite a good blog topic”, as it was interesting gauging everyones repsonses.
I wanted to test a mass Dlist I’d made to test for any duff addresses. There were 46 recipients in it, two bounced back – which was the whole point for me – weedle out the duff addresses, but I was amused when six people all emailed back within a few minutes saying “icles?”.
So Shaz (#8) if there was a prize, you’d win it!
Zu (#31) – err, sometime soon before I leave these shores I guess!
You get 34 comments about a test, and I get 2 comments a week maximum over my very interesting topics. Bah!
Did i pass?
I didn’t get one of these emails. Should I be glad that my junk filter is working?
*feels rejected*
Oh, the shame.
And I thought I was being so original, as well.
Life is so unfair, I didn’t get an email either!
nor me….
Oh dear. “How to offend people” in one swift step.
Those that didn’t get a ‘test’ email from me can sleep soundly in their beds tonight knowing that it’s because I am sure of your email address that I didn’t need to send a test to it to check it.
Of course, now I’ve just offended all the people who DID get one off of me who’ll say “Why weren’t you sure of my email address?”. Grrr, I can’t win.
Oh, and congratulations to my friend Mark, who wins a £5 prize for sending me a text message just now that just said … “test” !
test