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A question of etiquette!

  • 15-11-2009 3:34pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    This is not a major problem, just a niggling uncertainty about what to do...

    I'm doing an application for a course that has been my ambition for years. A friend of the guy I'm seeing is already qualified in this area and has been involved with the selection panels before so knows what they're looking for. I've met him quite a few times and we get on well but we're certainly not "friends". Over a week ago we were talking about the application and he offered to take a look at it and let me know what he thought before I submit it. He gave me his email address to send it to. I finished the form last Wednesday evening and sent it to him with a message to say thanks for helping. As yet I've heard nothing!

    I know its only been 4 days but its not a long form and I only expect general comments from him, not a complete rewrite! I need to submit it early this week to make sure it meets the deadline, and he knows this. I'm a bit concerned that he didnt get it but I don't want to hound him in case he did and just hasn't got round to it yet, considering I don't know him all that well and it was a favour.

    I'm happy enough with it and will send it this week anyway, but I'd feel ridiculous if it turns out he didnt get it and I have to explain the next time I see him that I thought he'd just ignored it!

    Added to this is the fact that I'm uncertain now about his email address. He wrote it in my phone as A.surname@gmail.com (example, obviously!) but I did it all lowercase as I presumed it didn't make a difference and my phone automatically capitalises the first letter of sentences anyway. Might this have meant he didn't get it? I would just resend it, writing the address all in lowercase but again, if he already got it I'd be embarassed to have sent it again this long after.

    Anyone shed any light on the email address thing? I'd be perfectly happy to wait if I knew he definintely had it, its just the idea that he didn't get it thats bothering me! I would have expected a quick email to confirm that he had received it, especially if he knoew he wasn't going to get a chance to look at it for a while.


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  • #2
    Jack B. Badd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭Jack B. Badd


    It's one of my pet-peeves when someone tells me that such-and-such an email address is "all in lower case letters" - call centre staff seem to be the worst for this. By default, it doesn't make a blind bit of difference whether it's in capitals, lower case or half and half so long as it's spelled correctly.

    Why don't you drop him a quick line to ask what he thinks and point out that you're submitting it this week. If he doesn't respond submit it anyway.


  • #3
    Terodil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 809 ✭✭✭Terodil


    Jack B. Badd wrote: »
    It's one of my pet-peeves when someone tells me that such-and-such an email address is "all in lower case letters" - call centre staff seem to be the worst for this. By default, it doesn't make a blind bit of difference whether it's in capitals, lower case or half and half so long as it's spelled correctly.
    That's incorrect.

    http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.html
    The local-part of a mailbox MUST BE treated as case sensitive. Therefore, SMTP implementations MUST take care to preserve the case of mailbox local-parts. Mailbox domains are not case sensitive. In particular, for some hosts the user "smith" is different from the user "Smith". However, exploiting the case sensitivity of mailbox local-parts impedes interoperability and is discouraged.

    But I agree with the advice. I wouldn't mind receiving an email reminder tbh, it happens that I have so much to do that I won't think of things that have made it onto my 'urgent' list. Especially if I'd agreed to do it, I would be grateful for a reminder, because defaulting on a promise is much worse...

    Good luck with your app. :)


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