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What a plank.

I get these all the time I ignore them, but last week, a guy emailed mt four times because I didn't reply. Ended with this rather shitty email

I'd suspect it straight away, just because why would someone who's written seventy novels have time to look at mine and why would they be interested? It's impersonal and vague, so immediately I think "what are they after?". Weird.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great singular power of self-respect. Joan Didion

I'd suspect it straight away, just because why would someone who's written seventy novels have time to look at mine and why would they be interested? It's impersonal and vague, so immediately I think "what are they after?". Weird.

I'd suspect it straight away, just because why would someone who's written seventy novels have time to look at mine and why would they be interested? It's impersonal and vague, so immediately I think "what are they after?". Weird.

Just to check/confirm, emojis should be OK in posts now and not generate an error...📘🔥

Thanks, John. I’ve tracked the issue down to those emojis in the scam message, the forum database wasn’t comfortable with them. Now updating the character set on the server, shouldn’t happen again after that.

I've encountered this before (not the scam, but multiple postings on our forum). Sometimes you get an error message, but the post has actually been created.

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