Some people shouldn't be allowed near computers

[mrSHEiK124]

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So the Honors College started a mailing list. They sent that e-mail out, the important part is highlighted.

My inbox has about 50 e-mails from stupid students that sent their E-MAIL ADDRESS as an e-mail out to the entire facking college. Mind you, these are Honors students, supposed to be the cream of the crop, right? Reading comprehension FTW...

 

[Anubis]

replay all shoudl just be removed IMO 6 times at my college did the reply all idiots shut down the mail servers

 

[kranky]

I have to say that message was worded pretty badly. ("To post to this list, send your email to:") Couple that with the typical lousy reading abilities of people, and I'm not surprised at what happened.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: kranky
I have to say that message was worded pretty badly. ("To post to this list, send your email to:") Couple that with the typical lousy reading abilities of people, and I'm not surprised at what happened.

Alright, try and reword it to involve snail-mail;

'To post to this list, send your mail to'

See? Address isn't in either sentence, so it makes sense to me either way. I'm amazed people don't understand the difference between e-mail and e-mail address.

 

[Ika]

this guy really shouldn't be allowed near computers

 

[kranky]

I guess I would have said something like "To post to this list, send your message to: blah@blah.edu. Your message will automatically be made available to all list members."

But I have heard plenty of people use "email" to mean "email address" (right or wrong, people do it).

"I need your email"
"Do you have Bob's email?"

Probably anyone who had previously been on a Listserv would have understood, but I bet for most of the members it was a new experience. Mailing lists have fallen out of favor for the most part.

I have to agree, if they had just thought through what they were doing, it would have been obvious it made no sense. They were already ON the list (because they received that message), so what would be accomplished by sending their email address to it?

 

[Safeway]

Yep, happens to me, too. I block that spam, immediately.

 

[Nitemare]

?

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: Nitemare
?

:laugh:

I expected lolcats after seeing the filename, nice.

 

[Safeway]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124

Originally posted by: Nitemare
?

:laugh:

I expected lolcats after seeing the filename, nice.

Haha. Crazy azn.