Okay, can we be a little more melodramatic?

[gopunk]

what the hell is up with people who turn EMAIL of all things, into some sort of epic struggle? i have this lady who is getting like 5 mailer daemon messages and she refers to this as "being beseiged" and describes herself as being "slightly frantic". meanwhile, i have a guy who cries out that he is getting "a huge number of spam e-mails" and illustrates his point by describing how he had to delete 7 entire emails all in one night! "something needs to be done!" it's a "waste of staff time to delete these messages".

i don't understand. it takes seconds for me. am i missing the long way for doing this?

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: gopunk
what the hell is up with people who turn EMAIL of all things, into some sort of epic struggle? i have this lady who is getting like 5 mailer daemon messages and she refers to this as "being beseiged" and describes herself as being "slightly frantic". meanwhile, i have a guy who cries out that he is getting "a huge number of spam e-mails" and illustrates his point by describing how he had to delete 7 entire emails all in one night! "something needs to be done!" it's a "waste of staff time to delete these messages".
i don't understand. it takes seconds for me. am i missing the long way for doing this?

Ha ha...I probably have to delete 7 an hour from an old hotmail account

 

[CKDragon]

Sounds like my parents.

Somehow the motherboard and processor I put in their computer causes them to get more spam.

CK

 

[Stratum9]

Just e-mail them back telling them that the only way to get rid of spam is to kill themselves and be reincarnated into a perfect world.

 

[dbzwukan]

*checks deleted folder and notice 117 junk mails and counting*

damn spammers....

 

[Cyberian]

I actually envy people who have nothing more serious than that in their lives to worry about.

 

[Wallydraigle]

Right now I have 638 new messages in my hotmail box and none of them are from people I know. Thank you. Thank you Bill Gates for pimping my name around like I'm some kind of $3 whore. Thanks a lot.

 

[Instagib]

Ok my life is going to end I got an x-rated email today.

 

[Scootin159]

I figured it out a while ago & I'm getting about 200 spam e-mails a day (actually about 50/day x 4 accounts, but they all go to the same inbox, so I don't really notice the difference).

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: lirion
Right now I have 638 new messages in my hotmail box and none of them are from people I know. Thank you. Thank you Bill Gates for pimping my name around like I'm some kind of $3 whore. Thanks a lot.

 

[Entity]

what the hell is up with people who turn EMAIL of all things, into some sort of epic struggle? i have this lady who is getting like 5 mailer daemon messages and she refers to this as "being beseiged" and describes herself as being "slightly frantic". meanwhile, i have a guy who cries out that he is getting "a huge number of spam e-mails" and illustrates his point by describing how he had to delete 7 entire emails all in one night! "something needs to be done!" it's a "waste of staff time to delete these messages".

i don't understand. it takes seconds for me. am i missing the long way for doing this?

Do you, by chance, work for CAC?

Rob

 

[PsychoAndy]

you know, if we took all the power used from spamming computers and perhaps concentrated it on research, we'd probably have:

A: A cure for cancer
B: One hell of bundle of SETI WU's

 

[gopunk]

Do you, by chance, work for CAC?

Rob



why yes, yes i do

fyi, i just made all this up, no such people exist on campus, everybody here is sharp as a tack.

 

[Entity]

why yes, yes i do

fyi, i just made all this up, no such people exist on campus, everybody here is sharp as a tack.

Heh. Trust me, I know.

You know, I really should complain more to you then. You know how many complaint phone calls I get when homer goes down? (I work for Biostat, BTW).

Rob

 

[gopunk]

You know, I really should complain more to you then. You know how many complaint phone calls I get when homer goes down? (I work for Biostat, BTW).

i take it you're some form of departmental support staff then? we get a ton of calls whenever stuff goes down too... homer, keynes, dante, etc. we send them all to netops

 

[Entity]

i take it you're some form of departmental support staff then? we get a ton of calls whenever stuff goes down too... homer, keynes, dante, etc. we send them all to netops

Technically I'm the webmaster. But at the UW, that doesn't really matter - we're all "computer guys" to the faculty. That's ok, though; there's definitely job security.

And honestly, we send all our complaints directly to netops, but it'd be fun to have someone else to bitch to.

Rob

 

[gopunk]

Technically I'm the webmaster. But at the UW, that doesn't really matter - we're all "computer guys" to the faculty.

ain't that the truth... thank god for the "transfer" button

That's ok, though; there's definitely job security.

oh so true. best student jobs on campus as well, well in c&c at least, i would never want to be a lab monkey (uwired).

And honestly, we send all our complaints directly to netops, but it'd be fun to have someone else to bitch to.

you know we should have some interdepartmental computing support staff wars sometime... that would be amusing

 

[Ameesh]

lol



i get about 800 emails a day and i cry every time i delete one.