Saturday, February 07, 2009

How to send an e-mail to the board of directors

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I have just e-mailed seven board members about my new post on possible 2008 bonuses for CEO Craig Dubow and other top executives.

9 comments:

  1. Jim; I don't see actual addresses for any of these clowns. Do you have them?

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  2. Glad to see you added corporate secretary Todd Mayman to the list.

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  3. 6:52 pm: I would have included investor relations director Jeffrey Heinz, but I don't have his e-mail address.

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  4. lstcyr@gannett.com

    Larry St. Cyr to the rescue!!!

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  5. I've successfully written Director Karen Hastie Williams before. But the following reply suggests she may now be blocking my mail: "Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain"

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  6. Jim,

    Assuming Karen's email domain isn't owned by her, it's unlikely that error message means that she is blocking your email specifically. If she were actively blocking your messages, you wouldn't get an error back - your email would simply disappear.

    Gannett blocks millions of SPAM messages per day and no error message is ever sent back to the sender. The messages simply go into the "bit bucket"

    I wouldn't read anything into that error

    Signed,

    A former IT person with knowledge of the subject.

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  7. 10:11 pm: D'oh! Thanks!

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  8. Good for you. Keep their feet to the fire.

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