{"id":16903,"date":"2009-09-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/09\/01\/one-way-to-make-sure-nobody-sends-you-feedback\/"},"modified":"2009-09-01T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T10:00:00","slug":"one-way-to-make-sure-nobody-sends-you-feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090901-00\/?p=16903","title":{"rendered":"One way to make sure nobody sends you feedback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, somebody sent out a message to very large group of people describing a change to, well, what it described isn&#8217;t important to the story. What&#8217;s important is that the message ended with the following sentence:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> If you have questions, please send them to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.commailto:abcdf\">abcdef<\/a>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> If you don&#8217;t see why this was a brilliant move, go back and check what that &#8220;abcdef&#8221; link really does.<\/p>\n<p> One of my cynical colleagues noted, &#8220;Maybe this was intentional. That way, when they get no feedback, they can say, &#8216;See, this was an awesome decision. Nobody complained!'&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, somebody sent out a message to very large group of people describing a change to, well, what it described isn&#8217;t important to the story. What&#8217;s important is that the message ended with the following sentence: If you have questions, please send them to abcdef. If you don&#8217;t see why this was a brilliant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-16903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Last year, somebody sent out a message to very large group of people describing a change to, well, what it described isn&#8217;t important to the story. What&#8217;s important is that the message ended with the following sentence: If you have questions, please send them to abcdef. If you don&#8217;t see why this was a brilliant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}