… for being stupid spammers.

Obviously they polled some blog search engine (maybe Google’s blogsearch) for some keywords like Java, tried to guess the name from that and grabbed email addresses they could find.

I just received this stupid “job application offer”:

Good Afternoon Planet,
I represent a major Airline in Dallas, TX. We have 3 openings for C Developers with Java, Unix, Sybase and Oracle skills. Basically our client is doing a 2 year migration from C to Java and needs C language Guru’s.

This “major Airline in Dallas” (Southwest? Amerian Airways? I don’t know.) should maybe be looking for a different company to do their development.

The company they are using right now, Adea Solution, obviously:

  • is a spammer (no previous contact, obviously an automatic email)
  • thinks my name is “Planet”
  • does random capitalization
  • can’t spell (the plural of “guru” is “gurus”, without apostrophe), and I can only imagine the errors a native speaker would find in their mail
  • can’t properly format an email (it was a mess); I don’t want to know what their sourcecode looks like…

One more quote:

I apologize if you are not looking. We have a system here that pulls information from the web and does not distingish between those who are current and those who are not.

If you know that your system is crap, just don’t use it. Instead of spamming.

If I were looking, I wouldn’t put “I’m currently not looking for a job” on my homepage. And I’d probably try to get in touch with someone professional.

[Update: their homepage appears to be unreachable… looks like someone else was even more annoyed than I…]