Use useful subjects, I mean, do not tell "HALP!!!111!" Instead, tell "I need help for [...]" And what you experienced is not in itself a wtf, there are systems that accept commands through e-mail, they tend to disappear, but they do existed.

I have to call this not a WTF. The WD MyBook is basically a user friendly (read dead easy to use) external drive, designed for the general populace to plug in and do backups. It comes with some autorun backup programs for Windows, but works just fine on my Linux boxes as well (in case you couldn't tell...