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 > > > > > >====================================================================== > > Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including > > subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available > > via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") > >====================================================================== > > >====================================================================== > Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including > subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available > via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") >====================================================================== > > >====================================================================== > Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including > subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available > via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") >====================================================================== ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ======================================================================