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I dont think the site will do anything about mass email
Sep 21, 2014
Recently I received email from a company asking for quote and saying many misleading things like "we looking for long term cooperation", "we saw your profile and like to work with you" and that "we will contact other linguists so a timely response is expected". Dont know how fast a timely reply should be but it turned out they sent the same email to 3 other translators at the same time and I doubt that they sent it to all the translator.
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Recently I received email from a company asking for quote and saying many misleading things like "we looking for long term cooperation", "we saw your profile and like to work with you" and that "we will contact other linguists so a timely response is expected". Dont know how fast a timely reply should be but it turned out they sent the same email to 3 other translators at the same time and I doubt that they sent it to all the translator.
I think it is possible if they have a will to do it. I used to contact help staff about my suggestions to improve the system but there is no sign they consider improving the system. Other sites may be the same , especially those sites born from China. I dont trust them, they are just out for their pocket. **cafe say they will think about it next update though.
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jyuan_us United States Local time: 13:08 Member (2005) English to Chinese + ...
3 other translators?
Sep 21, 2014
Little Woods wrote:
Recently I received email from a company asking for quote and saying many misleading things like "we looking for long term cooperation", "we saw your profile and like to work with you" and that "we will contact other linguists so a timely response is expected". Dont know how fast a timely reply should be but it turned out they sent the same email to 3 other translators at the same time and I doubt that they sent it to all the translator.
I think it is possible if they have a will to do it. I used to contact help staff about my suggestions to improve the system but there is no sign they consider improving the system. Other sites may be the same , especially those sites born from China. I dont trust them, they are just out for their pocket. **cafe say they will think about it next update though.
[Edited at 2014-09-21 03:54 GMT]
I often receive e-mails that was sent to 500 translators at one click. It is annoying to the translator but it is nothing wrong to send group e-mails.
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