As I write this, my inbox is filling with e-mail. Over 100 e-mails in two hours. The reason: idiocy.
The UofC Graduate Student Association sends out weekly e-mails with an attached PDF newsletter. In this evening's e-mail, they forgot to attach the PDF. Someone replied to point this out and their e-mail got redirected to the entire mailing list. Someone replied to the reply to point this out. Then it went viral...
The best and the brightest at the UofC are keeping this mass of mass e-mails going with people asking to unsubscribe and such useful insight as:
"Forward, into the great unknown!"
"Ok, just to become a part of history, hehe"
"LOL....."
Yes, the best and the brightest the UofC has to offer have nothing better to do than keep ensuring they clutter their inbox and those of their fellow students.
This is about as bad as comments for news sites. I read CBC news but I try to stay out of the comments section. It's a haven for the uneducated and uninformed plus corporate bots which are just programmed to spot a keyword and create some standard reply. People are employed to post comments in order to get corporate propaganda into the public in disguise. Even one of my previous posts had some anonymous coward post a rebuttal though it gave a clear impression that my actual blog post wasn't read far beyond the title. I suspect it was a bot that picked up a few keywords and issued its canned reply.
Though, the worst example of when conversation should be stifled is on my comics website. People with a complete lack of wit think they can add something witty to a Calvin and Hobbes that was drawn 20 years ago. "'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool than open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
Hey, 20 more e-mails!
