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Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 7:43 pm
by At0miC
'Stop the spam dungus'

Very nice stuff jack :D , I've really enjoyed it and sended to some friends ofcourse :)

Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 7:47 pm
by Mj
Sorry Jack, no offence meant :oops:

Also these damn school comp have no sound, lmao so its no wonder i wasnt getting it!

Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 8:26 pm
by hogleg
Congrats on the job, Jack!

I signed up twice for the email thingy, Our server at work keeps slapping it down. I'll try it tonight.

Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 8:45 pm
by Jack Ruby
Im glad you guys are liking it :)

Yeah we noticed the skipping man but we were under huge pressure to deliver it on time, so we did as much as we could, theres still some tidying up to do and we will overwrite the file when we got it together, the client who paid wont notice the little tweaks but we want to get it as perfect as we can.

One day last week I started at 9am and finished at 6am, was back in work by 12.30pm, so you can see how rushed we were to get it done.

Hog I really hope you can see it, its cool.

ps, we were checking out some of the names on the list it got mailed too, names like Maureen Taylor, sounds like an old woman to me, I hope it freaks her :evil:

Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 9:47 pm
by Master-Of-Fungus-Foo-D
you said the names wouldnt be retained?

Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 9:55 pm
by Jack Ruby
The names of people you forward it to wont be retained also your name wont be if you entered by that front page that I posted.

We got the list of names from a data company and there was a mail out this morn to 50000 people, some of the people on that list also get a package posted to them, its like a case file folder, with a bunch of newspaper clippings which have your name in, theres polaroids of what looks like dead bodies, theres an evidence bag with a piece of bloody rag in it :twisted:

I really think we are gonna scare some people.

So your names safe fungus :)

Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:20 pm
by lizardkid
whats that? Dizard Did?
if i told you Dungus, it wouldn't be a very effective alternate name would it? :P
its like a case file folder, with a bunch of newspaper clippings which have your name in, theres polaroids of what looks like dead bodies, theres an evidence bag with a piece of bloody rag in it
:o :shock: i really hope you didn't send me one of those, my mom would FREAK.

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 5:28 am
by hogleg
very cool, scary :shock:

nice job

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:27 am
by Jack Ruby
Im glad you liked it Hog.

We are just getting the data company to send us the emails they received.

People are complaining :lol:

thats what we were hoping for, im sure we are gonna get in big trouble with the mailpack, would be cool to get in the newspapers :)

Will let you know what trouble we get in.

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 1:15 pm
by ziptie2k2
That's kick ass!!

I would say more, but dont want to give it away for anyone who hasnt done it yet.

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:32 pm
by Jack Ruby
Thought I would give you an update on the killer thing, well the mailpack I mentioned freaked a lot of people out, the advertising standards agency stopped us sending more out.

It made it into last fridays paper and ona bunch of news sites, we had a double page colour spread in the Daily Mirror (uk) the headline was:
JUNK MAIL TERROR!!

heres a link to the page about it on the newspaper site:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm ... _page.html

What can I say ?

Ooops :)

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:27 pm
by Master-Of-Fungus-Foo-D
You MAILED IT TO A BUNCH OF RANDOM PEOLE!? That was smart lol... or did an idiot do that? well anyway, youve got some cleaning up to do lol :P

Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 8:45 am
by Mj
"We have also received e-mails and calls from recipients praising the originality and imagination of the campaign."
Damn straight :wink:

Well done mate

Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:01 am
by lizardkid
good idea for a TV series, but mailing unwanting and unsuspecting people police-looking case files and bloody rags wasn't smart imo...

Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 5:12 pm
by Jack Ruby
Well the people were not totally random, they had checked some boxes on a site to say they were interested in receiving advertising material for certain kinds of tv shows, sci fi, crime, x files that kinda thing.

Also by them complaining and us getting in the paper it maximised our advertising, instead of a few thousand we actually got it out to a few million via the web and the papers.

A successful campaign :)