Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Sorry about that Calendar Invite

Those who received it were probably quite puzzled.

I know I was, especially since it went out from my personal email and not my corporate one.

While it set off all kinds of amusing emails in response, a number of things happened within a close proximity to each other and we are trying to work out what caused it. Especially since I was not logged into Notes or Gmail at the time of the incident.

No I don't have an iPad or iPhone or Android device but am using 852 traveler(Windows Mobile) and template.

What I did find was a iCal overlay of a Gmail account which I use for demos that seems to have sucked in a calendar appointment that should not have gone there.

We continue to investigate the situation because coincidentally I lost all 5,216 contacts from my phone. Not from Notes or iNotes just my phone. Had to reinstall Traveler to fix it.

3 comments:

  1. Did you say you had Windows Mobile... from Microsoft :)

    That's it.. no need to do further research.. I was using Outlook and ton of emails were sent to all my contacts... I guess they found how to send "SPAM" from win device

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  2. 5, 216 contacts? For real? No, seriously? Are all of them still alive?

    If it is any conciliation, a week or so ago, I had a similar invite from Ed Brill. I ignored that one just as promptly as I ignored yours.

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  3. Luis, but this was a cal invite not an email. I think an ical issue.

    Alex, hopefully they are all still alive, I do clear out a bunch every now and then(especially with recent contacts being added) but at one point I just kept moving 20+ years of email addresses and phone numbers and well it gets kind of large.

    We knew about Ed's and thus my belief something is funny.

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