Re: Errant E-mails on RESADM-L Angeline Farmer 27 Jun 2000 21:35 EST

I heartily endorse all your comments.

Angeline

At 00:17 28/06/00, you wrote:
>Dear List Members,
>   I believe we all received 45-50 errant E-mails yesterday on RESADM-L.  If
>you looked at the first 3 or 4 that you received, you could easily determine
>that the "Vacation Notification" feature was obviously sending notices on
>all old E-mails.  At that point it was easy to decide that these notices
>could simply be deleted.
>
>If you read the mails from the Listserv manager and later from the person
>whose system was malfunctioning, you could see that reasonable efforts were
>being made to correct the situation.
>
>I find it difficult to believe that it took one person two hours ("half my
>afternoon") to delete no more than 50 items.  Clearly, the problem was being
>resloved and deleting unwanted items is not normally such a big task that it
>is cause for concern.
>
>I think that we would each want to be accommodated by our fellow Listservers
>if the situation was happening to us.  Machines like people sometimes head
>in directions we never intended.  This is one situation where I believe a
>bit of patience, a couple of minutes use of the delete key, and some
>forebearance would have addressed the problem nicely.
>Sincerely,
>Rusty Okoniewski, Interim Director
>IFAS Sponsored Programs
>University of Florida
>G022 McCarty Hall-D
>PO Box 110110
>Gainesville, FL 32611-0110
>Telephone: (352) 392-2356
>Fax: (352) 392-8479
>E-mail: xxxxxx@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu
>Visit IFAS Sponsored Programs Homepage
>  http://grants.ifas.ufl.edu
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org]On Behalf
>Of Roberta Nary
>Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 10:41 AM
>To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG
>Subject:
>
>
>Same here. I received over 45 e-mails from kummer!  Please fix kummer's
>e-mail.
>
>
>
>I spent half my afternoon deleting mail from therese kummer.....someone
> >please fix kummer's email...................thanks
> >
> >
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