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08:27:55 pm on November 23, 2009 |
What/Who: A whole bunch of post-doctoral researchers being completely flummoxed by a mailing list.
Where/When: In a university in London.
Event: A mailing list was set up pre-subscribed with all the researchers – a bad idea really. A message was sent out and hundreds of researchers replied asking to be subscribed to the list. This meant that everyone got all these messages, so hundreds then sent a message asking to be unsubscribed from the list. With each message they got more and more angry insisting on being unsubscribed as if it was a human at the other end which would do this for them. Of course this just meant all these emails was sent to everyone. Eventually someone explained how mailing lists worked. Just goes to show a PhD doesn’t mean you’re clever about everything.
Mirthometer: A lowly schadenfreude 0.5 – you had to be there to enjoy it.
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