Harassed by Internal Spam
The last week I’ve been up to my eyeballs in alligators (as my Mom would say) and have been struggling to keep up…and falling behind. With blogging and voice mails and emails. Between being on the road constantly and under hot deadlines, I was forced to deal with something only if it was at 4-alarm-stage.
So today I had a breather and went to the office early to catch up. Hesitantly I opened my email. Normally I get hundreds a day, so I knew I was in for it. But totally unprepared for the 2000+ emails in the queue. Crap…I needed caffeine. After getting a gallon size cup of high-octane coffee, I sat down again and dove in.
Within moments I realized I’d been massively spammed. Almost a thousand times…by the auto responder on our email server. Apparently my email box crossed the magic threshold of file size.
So notice after notice was sent to me…every couple minutes during the past 24 hours. My first response was “I wouldn’t be over if you didn’t send 1000+ of these stupid warning messages”. Which isn’t rational given I have over 1.3 gig of space in my email box and the notices are only a few bytes, but nonetheless in my irrational, irritated state I spent the next few minutes trying to flag those stupid notices as spam so the spam filter would catch them. Then I spent the rest of the morning dealing with all the email and files in my email box.
The thing is, I realized that my email box is my most organized file system and is, in many ways, my lifeline. Through folders and good organization, everything has a place and I can find anything in moments. If it works…why mess up a good thing?
So on the agenda tomorrow– Quid Pro Quo — I think I’ll harass IT a bit. I’m thinking of an email campaign via our list-serv (which is controlled by interactive staff not IT) –perhaps I’ll send them a thousand copies of the same message requesting more file space for my email account.
This post was written by: Kim Mickelsen