Grist to the list.
So, there's a mailing list that allows all the postgrads here to mail eachother. It's kind of handy if you have something you need to tell everyone about (like a big postgrad event) or if you need something (like a home), but mostly it's fairly silly and is ignored by all.Until today.
2, maybe 3 people emailed the list looking for somewhere to live for the summer, which is fair enough. Someone took exception to this, decided their inbox was too, too valuable to be frittered on this crap and emailed the whole list asking to be taken off the list, explaining that it was one to her whether her postrgraduate comrades had anywhere to live or not. Her email inspired others, who also emailed the list, asking to be removed. Then someone else got annoyed by ALL the emails she had received today from "students [she] does not even know" and demanded that the nonsense stop. Then someone else (who may or may not have been me) emailed asking to be taken off the list of people wanting to be taken off the list. Then the Director of Housing emailed the list saying that the list wasn't a housing list, and in any case emailing the list asking to be taken off the list was probably a fairly silly idea. Then someone else emailed asking us all to stop, in no uncertain terms. More and more emails keep flooding in. It's like some glorious snowball, running grimly down a hill. I'm hysterically glad to have been a part of it.
Intriguingly, speaking as a psychologist, I have noticed a sex difference in these mails. Those demonstrating a total lack of humour about the whole affair have been from female postgrads. The few from males have had a tone of wry amusment about them.
Ah well. Fucking postgrads, eh?
posted by Memehunter @ 3:54 PM
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Bah. Can't you set up filters in Horde? Horde isn't exactly some weakling crappy piece of software - it's incredibly widely used, and I'd be shocked if there wasn't a way to filter out mail from a certain address, so that it's nicely sorted into its own folder. Maybe someone could make them all feel very silly by pointing this out?
Jeez, you'd think they'd been the first to have this problem.
I noticed that as well. A lot of the girls seemed to be quite snippy in their emails. Eejits! I just got excited when I saw that I'd got an email and all it was, was some pg looking for a but'n ben. Big chuff!
The postgraduate community here in general show such poor IT related skills that I am surprised any of them have any degrees at all... actually, I might modify that to just the arts postgrads. But that's what you get for being allowed to just sit and *think* about things.
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