Diddums

[j4]

From an irate email to webmaster:

"Every day, over three hundred email recipients within the University have to clear out 20 to 30 junk emails which can take up to 30 minutes."

20 to 30! How awful!

(This is before I even get to the question of how on earth it can take you 30 minutes to delete 30 junk emails... unless they mean a total of 30 man-minutes across the 300 email recipients within the University ... and if so, why have they selected those 300 out of the 30,000-odd email recipients in the University?)

Comments

[j4.livejournal.com]

Darn. This is all eminently sensible but unless it's written down the people round here won't give it the time of day.

I know what you mean about the funny-name emails. We got a genuine one from "Gaynor A. Hollander" which I nearly binned just today.

The other problem is that as webmaster we get all kinds of bizarre mails, in the text formatting equivalent of green crayon, from [whatever]@hotmail which usually go "PLEASE TO SEND ME FOR APPLY FORMS THE CAMBRIDGE DEGREE IN BANKING I HAVE DEGREE IN WHICH TO CONVERT ENLGISH AND AM HIGHLY SKILL IN ARTS" or "i cant access your website pls fix now urgent!!!!!!!" or similar, so it's quite hard to filter at all...

[nja.livejournal.com]

I deal with a lot of overseas students, so I'm used to genuine email from people with names like Abdul A Karim whose idea of a good subject is "YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE REQUIRED". Sadly, none of the real people are offering me a share in a $25 billion fortune.