Some of you (about 50 people, I’m guessing) have received the following message from me about 14 times:
If you’re receiving this, you probably also received one of about 65 messages that just went out from my computer and which may have seemed strangely off-topic.That’s because I first tried to send it to you days or even weeks ago, but somehow it got hung up in my Outbox until just a few minutes ago.Sorry about that.-Brad
I am so sorry. I mean, you have no idea how sorry, since I think some of the people I sent it to were prospective employers.
I’m actually quite good with technology, normally.
What happened here is that I finally managed (with a friend’s help) to dislodge a bunch of messages in my Outbox, some of which had been sitting there for weeks.
So, quite naturally, I felt the need to explain to all of those people why they had suddenly received an anachronistic message. So I sent the above message…
… and IT got stuck in my Outbox. So ever since yesterday, I was trying and trying to send it — changing settings, restarting Outlook, clicking send/receive over and over. And now, it seems it has send the message out again for each time I clicked on the button.
And I can’t seem to stop it. And I hesitate to send out ANOTHER apology to all those same people.
I finally managed to delete if from my Outbox, so maybe it will stop now. I hope I hope I hope…
and I never got one….
[sniff]
Don’t you have a nephew who could run over and help Brad out?
First thing you need to do is quit using Outlook. You can set up your email through Google Apps, and this will never happen.
A helpful reader provided me with a highly technical solution to the problem that I think just might work.
Keeping my fingers crossed, anyway…