I received an email from a "Vivek Bhaskar" the other day to my almost brand new Broadchoice email address, offering their services along with pricing. I replied, asking how they obtained my email address since it was so new. Vivek responded that they buy lists from a third party. I told them to remove me from their mailing lists and not to contact me again.

Today, I get the exact same email introducing their "services" and requesting a phone call. I reported the email as spam and added them to my SpamCop blacklist.

Grrr!

It always baffles me how may "technical" recruiters aren't technical at ALL. I don't expect them to be C++ gurus, but perhaps spending 5 minutes on whatis.com before contacting a candidate will help them filter the resumes better (and thus waste less of my time)?

Last month at the SACCFUG meeting we had a recruiter show up to advertise his services. The first words out of his mouth were something to the affect of "Coldfusion is a brand new language". We quickly informed him that we're on version 8 of CF, and it's not new at all. Needless to say, he didn't stay until the end of the meeting, and I think his cards were used as tickets for the tshirt raffle, then thrown out. :)

@Nolan, yes, unfortunately too many recruiters rely on a numbers-based, scatter-gun approach to things and I don't have much time for those types. After all, I would not be very comfortable attending interviews set up by someone who clearly doesn't understand me or my skill set!