Near the start of the semester, a classmate (or, rather, a former classmate) of our submitter sent this this huffy message of “warm regards” to everyone on the course listserv. ”I guess someone doesn’t know how to unsubscribe from Yahoo Groups,” our submitter says. “Instead, by posting this message, she ‘flooded’ all of our inboxes.” And that is not a good thing.
I, for one, would LOVE to see this girl’s complaint to the FCC. I envision a bright future for her writing blustery cease & desist letters as an attorney-at-LOL until retiring to concentrate on angry letters to the editor.
![Dear Class, Something came up and I have to quit the class. Please stop flooding my box with emails and get me out of this class and please do regard this letter and stop flooding me with emails. Or I will report you to the FCC and that is not a good thing. Thank you. With the Warmest Regards, [Redacted]](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2426/3993153471_b0ebca4e69.jpg "Dear Class, Something came up and I have to quit the class. Please stop flooding my box with emails and get me out of this class and please do regard this letter and stop flooding me with emails. Or I will report you to the FCC and that is not a good thing. Thank you. With the Warmest Regards, [Redacted]")
related: Be informed; Homeland Security will be.
54 responses so far ↓
#1
Alison
I hope they stayed subscribed and received the replies, follow ups for class, etc. etc. Haha.
Jan 25, 2011 at 10:53 pm rating: 4
#2
Don Adams
I don’t know about you, but I take *all* my warmest regards to the FCC.
Jan 25, 2011 at 10:53 pm rating: 16
#3
bujubee
I’ve reported you to the Internet Intelligence Police and that’s not a good thing.
Jan 25, 2011 at 10:54 pm rating: 21
#4
unholyghost2003
With her email address available to me I promise you I would not be able to find a Spam-Bot I didn’t like. “V1@gr@” at half retail value? sign me up for two in case I miss the first email!
Jan 25, 2011 at 10:58 pm rating: 15
#5
chrys
Her parents had unprotected sex and that was not a good thing.
Jan 25, 2011 at 11:01 pm rating: 34
#6
shwo!
“…and that is not a good thing.” Especially for the poor soul at the FCC who gets the complaint. Unless they like a good laugh.
Jan 25, 2011 at 11:03 pm rating: 5
#7
Nahhh
Dear Quitter:
Good Thing™ is my trademarked property. I will be reporting you to the FTC.
M. Stewart
Jan 25, 2011 at 11:35 pm rating: 22
#8
Canthz_B
Little known fact (because I just made it up), “something came up” is the most frequently used reason for dropping classes during the Add/Drop period of a semester.
Usually it means “I don’t understand a damned thing that’s going on in that classroom and I’m destined to flunk! Is it too late to get into Pottery 101?”
Jan 26, 2011 at 12:07 am rating: 17
#9
FeRD
Ugh. People like this shrill letter-writer are the bane of the technology world. (This letter, alone, should explain the previous P-AN entry for anyone who doesn’t yet feel their sysadmin’s pain.) Every problem or frustration, mostly due to their own lack of comprehension, becomes a federal case that they think can only be solved by bullying and threatening their way to satisfaction.
It annoys me when I’m on the receiving end, and it annoys me even more watching people I know subjecting other poor, innocent techs to the same treatment. Eventually, after watching them scream and rant on the phone for an hour and get absolutely nowhere, I just can’t take it anymore. So I end up having to rip the phone out of their hand, spend 5 minutes explaining the situation sanely and calmly to the person on the othe end, and suddenly everything’s sorted out… as if by magic!
Jan 26, 2011 at 1:03 am rating: 16
#10
FeRD
Oh, yeah: Extra 100 point bonus if the class in question is a Communications course, or if that’s her major.
Jan 26, 2011 at 1:22 am rating: 10
#11
AndreaC
I have a question: what are the odds of “that’s not a good thing” becoming the “it was f*cking delicious” of 2011?
Please say they are good.
Jan 26, 2011 at 7:31 am rating: 9
#12
Potter_B
That Yahoo group was f*cking delicious.
Jan 26, 2011 at 7:51 am rating: 2
#13
The Elf
The best is when you get an email like this, and then someone uses the reply all function to tell them the inappropriateness of the email, or that they are the wrong person to ask, or to give instruction. Then someone else uses reply all to tell them the same, not seeing the first reply all. About a dozen reply alls later, someone gets the brilliant idea to use reply all to tell everyone to stop using reply all. It only ends when we’re all in mail jail.
Jan 26, 2011 at 8:23 am rating: 12
#14
ISpy
While I feel everyone’s frustration, I’m a big fan of the Delete key. I have more important (PA) things to do.
Jan 26, 2011 at 11:06 am rating: 2
#15
Miss Ash
Awesome. The FDA is scary!
Jan 26, 2011 at 11:12 am rating: 0
#16
Other Julie
The only way this could have been better is if she had threatened FOIA requests.
Jan 26, 2011 at 2:56 pm rating: 1
#17
oi
You have to visit this. Janice is going to report it to facebook!
http://www.lamebook.com/social-notworking/
roflmao!
arhm.
Jan 26, 2011 at 3:38 pm rating: 2
#18
Divvitar
With warmest regards, please go to registrar to drop the class and click “unsubscribe” at the bottom of the email, moron. Please stop flooding *my* inbox with your ignorant threats, which is not a good thing.
Fuck You.
With warmest regards,
Divvitar
Jan 26, 2011 at 7:23 pm rating: 2
#19
Daniel
She’s got to be majoring in Communications, right?
Jan 27, 2011 at 3:05 am rating: 0
#20
VZG
I got a lot of those messages from a club mailing list once… and then I stupidly tried to help by copying and pasting the part of the e-mail with the instructions on how to unsubscribe. Instead of looking for it in their own e-mails, they all just copied everything I’d copied and unsubscribed me, over and over and over again.
I sometimes wonder how they got by at our college, since there was a lot of computer use required for every class.
Jan 30, 2011 at 8:00 pm rating: 1
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