World's Best Submission Response

One of the places I submitted to in my last round of optimism had a typo on their submissions info page. I've seen such things before (which either says something about the quality of submission info pages generally or about the quality of places I submit to) but this time decided to point it out, in the hope that building a relationship with the editor would make it more difficult for him to tell me I suck.

Anyway, I qualified the email with

I couldn't decide if this would make me seem helpful or like an arrogant jerk. Hopefully the first one

The editor sent me an email back tonight (which set my stomach into an acrobatic routine worthy of shameful, shameful bronze, same as always). It read

Cheers for the edit. It definitely makes you seem helpful, and not at all an arrogant jerk. I wonder how many people noticed the typo and didn't write in to correct it. Thanks again. We've added your submission to the review process and should have an answer soon.

So wins all round, I think. And at least this proves that editors actually read the postscript on their submission emails.

Yes, that's right. The World's Best Submission Response said very little about my submission.