2008 Woodie Awards
[ystud] Stop the ystud flood - LAST REMINDER!!!!
Y. Aryeh Rosenbaum
Issue date: 11/5/07 Section: Opinion
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[ystud] Stop the ystud flood - LAST REMINDER!!!!
Next week I'll delete 28 emails. The first six will go right away; those will be emails begging me to come to the same event being advertised on flyers posted all around the campus - an event that I can't attend because I still have classes until 10 p.m. three nights a week.
I'll also get rid of five FINAL WARNINGs and LAST REMINDERs of approaching deadlines for events I won't attend because I'm just not interested. I won't even have to read the entire subject line to know that I'm deleting those.
Four will be concerning only those students in a morning program where I've never been enrolled. Three will be addressed to seniors only, and two will be for the sophomore class. The last one will inevitably be a newsletter I have never read.
These emails all have something in common, other than the fact that they're destined to be neighbors in my email trash bin. They're all ystuds.
Sending an email to the ystud list means sending it to the entire Wilf Campus - IBC, BMP, Senior, Freshman, Pre-law, French Club - you name him, he gets it.
No matter who the sender is, each ystud has to make it past the Moderator. It's therefore somewhat astonishing that I frequently sift through tens of ystuds that don't concern me in the least. Why is this?
Maybe the Moderator gets so many ridiculously unacceptable ystuds that he is too busy to properly moderate; if that's the case, we need a second Moderator. That would be easier than getting everyone to follow procedure. What is procedure? Well, ystuds are not the only way to send emails to everyone who needs to read them, especially when not every student needs it, nor even wants it. If you have information you'd like to share with a specific group of people, you can visit: https:lists.yu.edu/mailman/listinfo where you will find a whole list of lists. Yes, the ystud is not the only list; there are lists for every individual year (freshman, sophomore), every morning program, every major, and even a list of several clubs. Choose the correct list and send your email to those names attached to that list - and ONLY to those names. It will be all the more effective because it won't have [ystud] in the subject line, which many of us have come to interpret as "delete me!"
Next week I'll delete 28 emails. The first six will go right away; those will be emails begging me to come to the same event being advertised on flyers posted all around the campus - an event that I can't attend because I still have classes until 10 p.m. three nights a week.
I'll also get rid of five FINAL WARNINGs and LAST REMINDERs of approaching deadlines for events I won't attend because I'm just not interested. I won't even have to read the entire subject line to know that I'm deleting those.
Four will be concerning only those students in a morning program where I've never been enrolled. Three will be addressed to seniors only, and two will be for the sophomore class. The last one will inevitably be a newsletter I have never read.
These emails all have something in common, other than the fact that they're destined to be neighbors in my email trash bin. They're all ystuds.
Sending an email to the ystud list means sending it to the entire Wilf Campus - IBC, BMP, Senior, Freshman, Pre-law, French Club - you name him, he gets it.
No matter who the sender is, each ystud has to make it past the Moderator. It's therefore somewhat astonishing that I frequently sift through tens of ystuds that don't concern me in the least. Why is this?
Maybe the Moderator gets so many ridiculously unacceptable ystuds that he is too busy to properly moderate; if that's the case, we need a second Moderator. That would be easier than getting everyone to follow procedure. What is procedure? Well, ystuds are not the only way to send emails to everyone who needs to read them, especially when not every student needs it, nor even wants it. If you have information you'd like to share with a specific group of people, you can visit: https:lists.yu.edu/mailman/listinfo where you will find a whole list of lists. Yes, the ystud is not the only list; there are lists for every individual year (freshman, sophomore), every morning program, every major, and even a list of several clubs. Choose the correct list and send your email to those names attached to that list - and ONLY to those names. It will be all the more effective because it won't have [ystud] in the subject line, which many of us have come to interpret as "delete me!"