Camera Club Incident. What now?
Sep 11, 2012 01:34:46 #
I am looking for advice about to stay in the club or not stay.
The incident is that I emailed my images 3 days before the deadline to get them in for the judging night. The person who recieves these images says he did not recieve mine. He did not change email address and he recieved all my pictures last year. My computer shows the email as "sent." I get this impression that I am not being told the whole story about my images. I sent two flowers, fireworks, sun rays through tree leaves, and a multi-layered waterfall. I tell you that to show that there was nothing risque or objectionable.
My first thoughts are that I am done with this group, I can do many other things on Monday nights. Then I wonder if I am being to quick to respond this way?
I appreciate your advice on handling this situation. Thank you.
The incident is that I emailed my images 3 days before the deadline to get them in for the judging night. The person who recieves these images says he did not recieve mine. He did not change email address and he recieved all my pictures last year. My computer shows the email as "sent." I get this impression that I am not being told the whole story about my images. I sent two flowers, fireworks, sun rays through tree leaves, and a multi-layered waterfall. I tell you that to show that there was nothing risque or objectionable.
My first thoughts are that I am done with this group, I can do many other things on Monday nights. Then I wonder if I am being to quick to respond this way?
I appreciate your advice on handling this situation. Thank you.
Sep 11, 2012 01:54:08 #
chapjohn wrote:
I am looking for advice about to stay in the club ... (show quote)
Sometimes email messages go awry for unknown reasons.
You do not appear to have any reason to invent the suspicions you voice. What's that about?
Sep 11, 2012 01:58:01 #
chapjohn wrote:
I am looking for advice about to stay in the club ... (show quote)
I would send him an e-mail and see if he gets it. I know that I was not getting e-mails from a friend only to find out that somehow I managed to block e-mails from that sender. Talk to the person in charge of the club. I belong to several camera clubs and enjoy them. I just hate to see someone quite something they enjoy.
Mike
Sep 11, 2012 01:59:15 #
Does your email program permit you to ask for acknowledgment for receipt and/or reading of messages sent? Sometimes these can be generated automatically, but the recipient must at least receive notice that the acknowledgment of receipt has been generated and that opening of the message will generate another acknowledgment. If the recipient refuses to respond to a notice that opening the message will generate an acknowkedgment of having read the message, the recipient may or may not be allowed to open the message (based on email program protocols and/or preferences).
Sep 11, 2012 02:09:02 #
FilmFanatic
Loc: Waikato, New Zealand
If you sent full size images via email it is almost guaranteed to fail to go through. You should be using a file transfer service like yousendit.com or by Dropbox. They should not be asking for images via email
Sep 11, 2012 03:46:15 #
oldmalky
Loc: West Midlands,England.
Try sending via Picassa, i have never had a failure using that.
Sep 11, 2012 06:31:33 #
Sep 11, 2012 09:25:49 #
Has this happened to you or anyone else in the club before?
Sep 11, 2012 09:38:37 #
Sep 11, 2012 13:09:11 #
I was told that this has happened to many people in the club. I resent them when I returned home. I am wondering if for some reason it went to his junk/spam mail box. These images were resized before sending to res 72 and 1200 pix on the long side. There are no resasons to think that he did something on purpose, other than this has never happened with my emails to him before. This club is not set up to recieve images through any other means other than email.
Sep 11, 2012 13:16:11 #
The receiving email may have flaws, so I would send a follow up email every time after I've sent the images. Recently, I had to send 3 images via three emails so they would go through....
Sep 11, 2012 13:51:54 #
GDRoth wrote:
The receiving email may have flaws, so I would send a follow up email every time after I've sent the images. Recently, I had to send 3 images via three emails so they would go through....
I think this is the key. In future just wing another email asking for confirmation of receipt. A simple easy fix. Life is too short to get your knickers is a knot of something like this - unless, of course, you missed out on some decent prize money for winning, but even so...
Sep 11, 2012 15:00:17 #
Being an IT person, I can tell you that sh--t happens when are are dealing with computers and the Internet. If the message is important, it pays to resend it multiple times AND request a receipt confirmation each time. It may not be the individual's fault (and from what you told us, it probably wasn't).
Sep 12, 2012 05:21:32 #
FilmFanatic wrote:
If you sent full size images via email it is almost guaranteed to fail to go through. You should be using a file transfer service like yousendit.com or by Dropbox. They should not be asking for images via email
I had that happen just the other day, was sending a whole lot of photos to a friend, didn't stop to think of the total file size . . . . . maybe that's what has happened here.
Sep 12, 2012 05:32:24 #
DaveHam
Loc: Reading UK
For information; AOL and Microsoft Hotmail are having another childish spat over spam mail generation. Rather than deal with the spam (far too obvious a solution) the latest thing these less than customer aware services are doing is blocking large numbers of IP addresses and accounts that they 'suspect' of being involved in spamming. You could well be involved in this. We had a similar experience loosing mail sent via hotmail.
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