Small Technical Error
So a band mailing list that I'm on got derped this morning. It's not a high-traffic list; the band just uses it for the occasional announcement, but today all of a sudden everyone on the list got posting privileges, and all the subscribe/unsub messages went out to all of us.
Which, to be fair, is kind of annoying, having a couple dozen or so unwanted emails pop up in your inbox, ones that might take a minute or two to delete. And some of the responses reflected that - lots of "hey, I think the list got hacked/borked", just letting you know.
Except, of coures, the rest of the responses were all "BLEARGH YOU ARE TOTALLY SPAMMING ME NOW I DEMAND YOU REMOVE ME FROM THIS LIST IMMEDIATELY!" Which, of course, adds to the traffic, which totally spams other users, who, pushed over the edge by the irate poster's use of all caps, then respond with "YOU ARE COMPLETELY BLOWING UP MY INBOX! GET ME OFF THIS LIST NOW!"
Which, of course, starts the whole vicious cycle all over again.
Now, I understand the inconvenience of getting some email you don't want, particularly if, say, you've got your phone set to vibrate every time a new email comes in. And I can certainly understand not wanting a mailbox full of messages you're not supposed to be getting, and the annoyance that comes with having to delete them if, say, you don't bother to set up a filter to do it for you.
On the other hand, maybe I'm just old-fashioned here, but I'm not exactly seeing where this is on par with having someone toss your pet rabbit into a stewpot. If getting a few unwanted emails actually produces the level of emotional trauma you're claiming in your frenetic, all-capitalized emails demanding you be unsubbed, you have far, far bigger problems in life than what's in your email.
Which, to be fair, is kind of annoying, having a couple dozen or so unwanted emails pop up in your inbox, ones that might take a minute or two to delete. And some of the responses reflected that - lots of "hey, I think the list got hacked/borked", just letting you know.
Except, of coures, the rest of the responses were all "BLEARGH YOU ARE TOTALLY SPAMMING ME NOW I DEMAND YOU REMOVE ME FROM THIS LIST IMMEDIATELY!" Which, of course, adds to the traffic, which totally spams other users, who, pushed over the edge by the irate poster's use of all caps, then respond with "YOU ARE COMPLETELY BLOWING UP MY INBOX! GET ME OFF THIS LIST NOW!"
Which, of course, starts the whole vicious cycle all over again.
Now, I understand the inconvenience of getting some email you don't want, particularly if, say, you've got your phone set to vibrate every time a new email comes in. And I can certainly understand not wanting a mailbox full of messages you're not supposed to be getting, and the annoyance that comes with having to delete them if, say, you don't bother to set up a filter to do it for you.
On the other hand, maybe I'm just old-fashioned here, but I'm not exactly seeing where this is on par with having someone toss your pet rabbit into a stewpot. If getting a few unwanted emails actually produces the level of emotional trauma you're claiming in your frenetic, all-capitalized emails demanding you be unsubbed, you have far, far bigger problems in life than what's in your email.
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