So, it's getting towards the end of the tax year, which means that everyone is trying to look busy / make sales to inflate their figures - no doubt to avoid the giant cut that's incoming. To this end, we're starting to increase our outgoing catalogues - essentially an image detailing all our specials, products, etc etc.
Getting this made is a major hassle - people are exporting from Publisher 03, for christ's sake - and e-mailing it out has turned into a bigger problem. For some reason, they don't tell IT about any of this, even though they know (or at least, were told) that it can be a big drain if it's done incorrectly.
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*ring ring*
OldOfficeLady: "Everyone's net is slow!"
Me: "Oh ok, yea I'm noticing it too, um, let me chec-"
OldOfficeLady: "Is it the batch emails?"
Me: "......batch emails?"
OldOfficeLady: "HumanBlob got me to send out 3000 emails in batches of 50"
Me: "That's...ok, I guess, what was in the email?"
OldOfficeLady: "1mb attachment, that's ok though isn't it?"
Me: "..."
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Turns out there's 1200 messages in the mail queue and a whole bunch of bandwidth raping. I have no doubt that we will end up on some blacklists very, very soon. Again.
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