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Re: Silly Programming screw ups (funny)

This isn't robot code related, but it is FIRST related.

Last year (during my senior year of high school), while coding Team 228's content management system, I left a few lines of development code in place in one of my email notification scripts. This particular script would email everyone selected, every time a new event was added to the website.

To make sure that all the emails were being queued up and sent correctly, I added my own email address to the BCC headers of each email, and then I had the script send me another email when everything completed just fine. I tested the code running on my local Apache server with a few email addresses, and everything worked just fine. And then I forgot about those few lines of code.

Fast forward some time later, when I forgot to remove those lines of code when turning the development code into production code for deployment on 228's website.

I then proceeded to have my mailbox flooded with 58 emails every time a new event was added to their website. At the time, since I was busy with classes it took a week before I had the time to go and fix that issue.
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